HHS makes $25K buyout offer to most employees

Most Health and Human Services Department employees were recently emailed an offer to leave their job for as much as $25,000 as part of President Donald Trump’s government cuts. Workers have until 5 p.m. on Friday to submit a response to the offer and cannot start opting in until Monday. The agency's workforce includes roughly 80,000. According to the Associated Press, HHS is one of the government’s costliest federal agencies, with an annual budget of about $1.7 trillion that is mostly spent on health care coverage for millions of people enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid. This comes after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as HHS secretary last month.