Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks after being sworn in as Health and Human Services Secretary in the Oval Office on Feb. 13.

Robert F Kennedy Jr, secretary of the Health and Human Services Department, told reporters Thursday that he plans to reinstate many employees and programs he began cutting last week.

In head-scratching remarks, Kennedy said he knew he was firing more workers than necessary when he announced 10,000 job cuts by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency.

“There were a number of instances where studies that should have not have been cut were cut, and we’ve reinstated them. Personnel that should not have been cut were cut ― we’re reinstating them, and that was always the plan,” he claimed while speaking to a press gaggle at an elementary school in........

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