WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Thousands of employees fired this week from the Department of Health and Human Services and the public health agencies it oversees may be asked to temporarily continue working for two months,

“Every person working on it was let go,” Hoenig said, noting that the data collection is mandated by Congress. The office is part of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, which would be absorbed into a new Administration for a Healthy America under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s plan.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggests that laying off thousands of federal workers would tame a massive budget. But nearly all of the agency’s money goes to hospitals, doctors and nursing homes.

The reduction is expected to have wide-reaching consequences for the state's public health efforts, according to MDH Commissioner Dr. Brooke Cunningham.

Washington risks losing more than $150 million for public health initiatives if the grant cancellations are considered legal.

We aren’t just reducing bureaucratic sprawl. We are realigning the organization with its core mission and our new priorities in reversing the chronic disease epidemic,” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy,

Democratic officials from 23 states and the District of Columbia will get a Thursday hearing in a case suing to stop the Trump administration from canceling more than $11 billion in public health

The relationship a health care provider and the government department that sets its annual mandate should be reviewed, the minister responsible for it has said.Health and Social Care Minister Clare Christian will ask members to approve the setting up of a committee to review the at the April sitting of Tynwald.