STAT: RFK Jr., unconstrained by Congress, presses ahead to reshape health care →
As one of his first acts as Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised a sweeping overhaul of his department — reducing its workforce by 20% and refocusing it on his Make America Healthy Again agenda.
Months later, some of those firings are tangled up in legal battles and the creation of a chronic disease-focused agency, to be called the Administration for a Healthy America, stalled in Congress.
