The US Department of Health is planning to eliminate approximately ten thousand jobs as part of restructuring.[1] The total number of full-time employees will be reduced from 82 thousand to 62 thousand, which should save taxpayers up to 1.8 billion dollars.[1] The cancellations will affect 3,500 positions at the Food and Drug Administration, 1,200 at the National Institutes of Health, and 2,400 at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.[1] These measures do not affect evaluators of medicines, medical devices, foodstuffs or inspectors.[1] Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy described the period as painful and said it was about aligning the organization with the priorities of reversing the chronic disease epidemic.[1] In addition, the US defunded 2,706 grants worth $1.9 billion for mental health and addictions programs.[4] The United States officially withdrew from the World Health Organization after the denunciation and has no plans to return.[6]