WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Wednesday he has rehired 722 employees who were laid off from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and 220 at the National Institutes of Health.
“I brought 722 people back to CDC, I brought 220 people back to NIH because we were not able to perform our job,” Kennedy told the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Health in a hearing on his department’s 2026 budget request.
(Reporting by Ahmed Aboulenein in Washington and Puyaan Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama )
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