Secretary Kennedy Delivers Welcoming Remarks to HHS Staff, Feb. 18, 2025
February 18, 2025 · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · 0:21:56
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What happened
HHS published Secretary Kennedy delivering welcoming remarks to department staff on February 18, 2025, to what HHS’s description calls a packed Great Hall at the Hubert H. Humphrey Building — his first address to the workforce he had just taken over, days after his February 13 confirmation and February 14 swearing-in.
Why it matters
The address is the internal founding document of Kennedy’s HHS: the program he laid out to his own staff at the start of the tenure whose reorganization, staffing, and MAHA initiatives this chronicle tracks.
Scoreboard watch
Scoreboard candidate: the program Kennedy stated to HHS staff in this first address, each item as stated at the podium, to be checked against his conduct in office — flagged for the scoreboard editors; the entry itself remains review-gated.
Sources: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, ‘Secretary Kennedy Delivers Welcoming Remarks to HHS Staff’ (HHS upload, embedded above).
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