Department of Health and Human Services officials during a closed-door briefing could not give a full accounting of the number of people who have been fired from the agency, a Democratic aide for the House Energy and Commerce Committee said Friday.

HHS officials insisted to committee staff that the agency's massive staffing cuts had been performed "with a scalpel" and "with nuance" but they did not have any numbers of who had been laid off, the aide told reporters.

"There did not seem to be a function level understanding of who had been........

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