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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “We had to do a consolidation of the agency and make it work…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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Published | Video Starts at 04:34

We had 1400 external officers in 100 communications offices, 41 information officers, 40 procurement departments, dozens of IT departments, none of them talking to each other. We had to do a consolidation of the agency and make it work efficiently. and that's what we did. And I'm not saying that people who lost their jobs were bad actors. They weren't. Many of them were doing jobs they were hired to do. (04:34–04:40)

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