“Hawaii Tribune-Herald: Mass layoffs planned at HHS and Hannemann resigns as chair of HTA.”
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Today’s Front PageMass layoffs planned at HHSBy SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and CHRISTINA JEWETTNYTimes News Service The Trump administration announced Thursday that it waslaying off 10,000 employees at the Health and Human Services Department as part of a broad reorganization that reflects the priorities of Health Secretary RobertF. Kennedy Jr. and the White House’s drive to shrink the government. The layoffs are a drastic reduction in personnel for the health department, which had employedabout 82,000 people and touches the lives of…Read more Hannemann resigns as the chair of HTADecision comes amid allegations of freebies By ALLISON SCHAEFERS Honolulu Star-Advertiser Mufi Hannemann resigned as chairperson of the Hawaii Tourism Authority Board on Thursday, saying he wants to end distractions after allegations surfaced during discussion of a statefinancial audit that two of his nonprofits received Hawaii Convention Center freebies. The allegations emerged Tuesday during a special HTA board meeting to discuss the findings of a financial audit of HTA’s fiscal year 2024…Read more How to pay for Trump’s tax cuts?Republicans in Congress divided over the strategy By DAVID MORGAN and BO ERICKSON Reuters WASHINGTON – U.S. congressional Republicans are struggling over how to pay for President Donald Trump’s multi-trillion-dollar tax-cut and immigration reform agenda, with the fate of the Medicaid health care program and the nation’s debt ceiling hanging in the balance. The debate has Trump’s party torn between its traditional aversion to adding to the nation’s $36.6 trillion debt and some members’…Read more |
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