All employees in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were notified Friday of the option to voluntarily resign in exchange for a $25,000 payment, a source familiar with the situation told CBS News. The department-wide email offered a “voluntary separation incentive payment,” the source said. Employees have been given until a deadline of…
Federal health agencies oppose the use of bird flu vaccines in poultry right now, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said, weighing in publicly on it for the first time in his new role. The Trump administration has been considering poultry vaccination as it seeks to combat the outbreak that is fueling…
The top communications official under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly resigned last week, just two weeks after being sworn in to be the department’s assistant secretary for public affairs. The resignation of Thomas Corry, a Trump administration appointee, was first reported by Politico. Corry did not respond to multiple requests…
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a noted vaccine skeptic, voiced support for the measles vaccine Sunday amid a deadly outbreak in the Southwest, mainly in Texas. An unvaccinated child who died in late February in Texas was the first U.S. fatality from the highly contagious disease in a decade. Recently confirmed as…
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ended a longstanding transparency rule on Friday, supercharging his authority to change policies in areas ranging from Medicaid to the National Institutes of Health without advance notice to the public. Dubbed the “Richardson Waiver” after the former health secretary who issued the rule in 1971, the…
Probationary workers across multiple federal health agencies in the Department of Health and Human Services received virtually identical letters Saturday evening informing them they would be terminated from their positions, sources told CBS News. “Unfortunately, the Agency finds that you are not fit for continued employment because your ability, knowledge and skills do not fit…
Share on PinterestRFK Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” platform aims to help reduce the growing chronic disease burden in the United States. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the new Health and Human Services secretary after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Kennedy is expected to shake up the U.S. healthcare, food, and…
Washington — The Senate appears poised to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Thursday, following weeks of questions surrounding whether the controversial nominee would win the Senate’s approval. After all Republicans voted to advance Kennedy’s nomination in a procedural vote Wednesday, the final vote is scheduled…
Sen. Bernie Sanders says he was “not particularly happy” with RFK Jr.’s performance at hearings – CBS News Watch CBS News Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats but has praised some of Robert F. Kennedy’s remarks on the food industry, tells “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that he is “not particularly…
Is Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination for national intelligence director in trouble? – CBS News Watch CBS News Lawmakers grilled former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard at her confirmation hearings to serve as the director of national intelligence on Thursday. National politics reporter for The Washington Post, Sabrina Rodriguez, and CBS News political director Fin Gomez discuss Gabbard’s chances…