{"id":2788,"date":"2025-04-01T23:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T23:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/hhs-rfk-job-cuts-communications-foia-operations\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T23:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T23:03:15","slug":"hhs-rfk-job-cuts-communications-foia-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/hhs-rfk-job-cuts-communications-foia-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"After RFK Jr.\u2019s \u2018radical transparency\u2019 pledge, HHS shutters much of its communications, FOIA operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    After RFK Jr.\u2019s \u2018radical transparency\u2019 pledge, HHS shutters much of its communications, FOIA operations<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>The Department of Health and Human Services made major cuts to teams across its agencies that handle communications, media relations, and Freedom of Information Act requests as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/04\/01\/hhs-layoffs-start-under-rfk-jr-trump-administration\/\">mass layoffs Tuesday<\/a>, a move that workers say will cripple the department\u2019s ability to relay critical health information to the public and run counter to secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s vow to promote \u201cradical transparency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the majority of the media relations team was cut, as were workers who process FOIA requests, run the CDC\u2019s website, and manage social media accounts, said Kevin Griffis, who stepped down as director of the agency\u2019s communications several days ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/04\/01\/hhs-rfk-job-cuts-communications-foia-operations\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Elaine Chen, Lizzy Lawrence, and Isabella Cueto<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/04\/01\/hhs-rfk-job-cuts-communications-foia-operations\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After RFK Jr.\u2019s \u2018radical transparency\u2019 pledge, HHS shutters much of its communications, FOIA operations The Department of Health and Human Services made major cuts to teams across its agencies that handle communications, media relations, and Freedom of Information Act requests as part of mass layoffs Tuesday, a move that workers say will cripple the department\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2147,2144,2180,2149],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-2788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hhs","category-politics","category-public-health","category-rfk-jr","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788"}],"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=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}