{"id":2921,"date":"2025-04-07T23:04:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T23:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/rfk-congress-appearance-on-hhs-layoffs-likely-delayed-some-weeks\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T23:04:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T23:04:37","slug":"rfk-congress-appearance-on-hhs-layoffs-likely-delayed-some-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/rfk-congress-appearance-on-hhs-layoffs-likely-delayed-some-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr.\u2019s Senate hearing on health department cuts to be delayed for weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    RFK Jr.\u2019s Senate hearing on health department cuts to be delayed for weeks<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>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will likely delay his appearance before the Senate\u2019s health committee by several weeks, even as he makes historic changes to the Department of Health and Human Services and contends with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/04\/07\/health-news-measles-texas-cdc-sti-lab-migration-federal-mental-health-morning-rounds\/\">surging measles outbreak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Senate health committee Chair Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and ranking member Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) publicly asked the secretary to appear on April 10. They made the request on April 1, the same day that Kennedy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/04\/01\/hhs-layoffs-start-under-rfk-jr-trump-administration\/\">executed major cuts to the federal health workforce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/04\/07\/rfk-congress-appearance-on-hhs-layoffs-likely-delayed-some-weeks\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Daniel Payne and John Wilkerson<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/04\/07\/rfk-congress-appearance-on-hhs-layoffs-likely-delayed-some-weeks\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RFK Jr.\u2019s Senate hearing on health department cuts to be delayed for weeks Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will likely delay his appearance before the Senate\u2019s health committee by several weeks, even as he makes historic changes to the Department of Health and Human Services and contends with a surging measles outbreak. Senate health committee Chair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2158,1428,2147,2144,2149],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-health","category-hhs","category-politics","category-rfk-jr","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921"}],"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=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}