Oops! RFK Jr. scrambles to rehire essential employees fired by mistake

In the latest instance of Trump administration incompetence, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Thursday that his department is in the process of rehiring some of the 10,000 workers he unceremoniously purged from the health agency earlier this week.

Entire groups of staff working on critical programs were fired as part of the HHS bloodletting, leading to questions about whether certain programs could continue to function at all. That included the monitoring of childhood lead exposure...