Some of the roughly 10,000 employees fired from the Department of Health and Human Services are being asked to come back. The agency's secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, said the mass firings were consistent with the government's goals to purge the federal workforce but said 20% of them were made in error. "Personnel that should not have been cut, were cut. We're reinstating them. And that was always the plan", he said, adding "we'll make mistakes".

US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has acknowledged that about one-fifth of the 10,000 jobs eliminated from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) were mistakenly cut and "must be reinstated." Mass layoffs from HHS started this week as Donald Trump's administration sought to reduce the size of the federal government workforce. Union representatives were informed that approximately 10,000 people would lose their jobs, with further cuts potentially reducing the department's 82,000-person workforce by nearly a quarter. However, Kennedy stated that a significant portion of the layoffs by Elon Musk's unofficial "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE) are mistaken.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he knew he was firing more workers than necessary when he announced 10,000 job cuts. The Health and Human Services secretary said he plans to reinstate many employees and programs he began cutting last week. Those job losses, which left thousands of Americans scrambling for work, are all a part of “streamlining the agencies,” he said.

Department of Health and Human Services fired 10,000 employees this week. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says 20 percent of those jobs were actually a mistake. Kennedy: “Personnel that should not have been cut, were cut. And that was always the plan.”