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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “We have 100 communication departments. We have 40…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 12:39

So these reductions just bring it down to pre Covid levels. And the agency grew over the last 80 years or 70 years. And it's, it grew in a way that's very unwieldy. We have 100 communication departments. We have 40 procurement departments. We have 40 IT departments. You have nine HR departments. And many of them have computer systems that can't talk to each other, that are, that are faxing to each other. Right. (12:39–12:49)

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Asserts the existence of numerous departments within the agency, indicating redundancy.

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