{"id":10465,"date":"2026-02-13T23:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/hhs-leadership-changes-rfk-jr-hhs-midterm-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T23:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:02:19","slug":"hhs-leadership-changes-rfk-jr-hhs-midterm-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/hhs-leadership-changes-rfk-jr-hhs-midterm-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Major shakeup underway at HHS as White House braces for midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Major shakeup underway at HHS as White House braces for midterms<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Two top health officials are leaving their jobs amid a shakeup at the Department of Health and Human Services aimed at refocusing HHS on politically popular aspects of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s agenda in advance of the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Secretary Jim O\u2019Neill and General Counsel Mike Stuart are exiting a year into Kennedy\u2019s reign, according to a person familiar with the matter. HHS and the White House didn\u2019t respond to requests for comment on Friday. The news was first reported by Politico.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/02\/13\/hhs-leadership-changes-rfk-jr-hhs-midterm-elections\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Chelsea Cirruzzo<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/02\/13\/hhs-leadership-changes-rfk-jr-hhs-midterm-elections\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major shakeup underway at HHS as White House braces for midterms WASHINGTON \u2014 Two top health officials are leaving their jobs amid a shakeup at the Department of Health and Human Services aimed at refocusing HHS on politically popular aspects of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s agenda in advance of the midterm elections. Deputy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2216,2145,2157,1428,2147,2151,2144,2180,2149,2185],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-10465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-cdc","category-cms","category-health","category-hhs","category-policy","category-politics","category-public-health","category-rfk-jr","category-white-house","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}