Key Highlights
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- Kennedy Jr.
- was just a few weeks into his new job as health secretary in March 2025 when he unveiled a dramatic plan to remake the Department of Health and Human Services.
- Kennedy quickly determined that the size and structure of his agency — which includes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes for Health — was "incomprehensible." He said it was bloated and that explained why federal health officials had failed to improve Americans' health.
