‘Health Security Is At Risk’: Inside the Purge of HHS

Thousands of employees at the Department of Health and Human Services are being offered up to $25,000 , pre-tax, to leave their jobs.

The deadline is this Friday at 5 pm , which gives workers only a week to decide whether or not to leave jobs that many have been in for decades .

The buyouts are the latest efforts to scale back the workforce at HHS .

Experts say the impacts of losing thousands more HHS workers could be broadly felt by Americans .

RFK Jr. has been tight-lipped about which HHS workers will be on the chopping block, saying he has a “list in my head” of who he wants to go.

For some, this is motivation to stay and fight.

Internal emails confirm the NIH cancelled its plan to send some National Cancer Institute employees to an annual meeting in Chicago in late April .

The decision is believed to be due to a travel ban in place at the agency.

Some NCI staff will still be able to attend the conference in-person or virtually, but only to present at sessions on NCI funding opportunities.