{"id":5357,"date":"2025-07-16T23:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T23:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/kennedy-fires-top-hhs-aides-in-abrupt-leadership-shakeup\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T23:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T23:03:04","slug":"kennedy-fires-top-hhs-aides-in-abrupt-leadership-shakeup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/kennedy-fires-top-hhs-aides-in-abrupt-leadership-shakeup\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: Kennedy dismisses two top HHS aides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    STAT+: Kennedy dismisses two top HHS aides<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 aides to Health and Human Services Department Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were dismissed from their roles this week after just months on the job.<\/p>\n<p>Both Heather Flick Melanson, chief of staff, and Hannah Anderson, deputy chief of staff for policy, were let go, HHS confirmed. Matt Buckham, Kennedy\u2019s White House liaison, will be acting chief of staff. CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/16\/health\/rfk-hhs-aides-fired\">first reported Wednesday that Kennedy had fired<\/a> Anderson and Melanson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecretary Kennedy thanks the outgoing leadership for their service and looks forward to working closely with Mr. Buckham as the Department continues advancing its mission to Make America Healthy Again,\u201d an HHS spokesperson told STAT in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/07\/16\/kennedy-fires-top-hhs-aides-in-abrupt-leadership-shakeup\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\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\/2025\/07\/16\/kennedy-fires-top-hhs-aides-in-abrupt-leadership-shakeup\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT+: Kennedy dismisses two top HHS aides WASHINGTON \u2014 Two top aides to Health and Human Services Department Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were dismissed from their roles this week after just months on the job. Both Heather Flick Melanson, chief of staff, and Hannah Anderson, deputy chief of staff for policy, were let go, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2147,2151,2144,2149,2152],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-5357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hhs","category-policy","category-politics","category-rfk-jr","category-stat","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357"}],"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=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}