Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “We are now at 72,000 [employees] and we're hiring 12,000 new…”

“How many full time employees do we have in HHS now? Which includes last year when I talked to you, there were 62,000, down from 82,000. We are now at 72,000 [employees] and we're hiring 12,000 new employees. We will have made up all the employees that we lost. We've replaced them with a better group of people who are actually going to address chronic health.” (01:11–01:16)

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