A federal judge in Rhode Island has blocked the Department of Health and Human Services from implementing mass layoffs and ...

HHS said layoffs are expected to save $1.8 billion annually — about 0.1% — from the department’s $1.7 trillion budget, most of which is spent on Medicare and Medicaid health insurance ...

Authors cited in a document circulated by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as justification for changes ...

The U.S. government continues to end contracts related to the $5 billion Project NextGen initiative, this time terminating funding for an Atlanta biotech’s lead COVID-19 vaccine program that’s ...

A building on the CDC campus in Atlanta. ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images. By Chelsea Cirruzzo. June 11, 2025. ... Chelsea Cirruzzo is a Washington correspondent at STAT, where she covers HHS.

Key takeaways: HHS rehired more than 450 people from four CDC divisions. Among those rehired were the staff of the CDC’s STI lab. HHS is rehiring hundreds of people fired from their positions at ...

CDC rehires 450 employees cut in HHS restructuring, ... Roybal campus in Atlanta, May 30, 2025. Megan Varner/Reuters "It's like Dunkirk when many civilian hands helped save the army.

This center, based in Atlanta, monitors the entire HHS network and is tasked with preventing, detecting, reporting, and responding to cybersecurity incidents at HHS. “It is the department’s ...