Two top aides to RFK Jr. leaving HHS as part of leadership shakeup
Source: CNN Health
Updated Feb 13, 2026, 12:15 PM ET
PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2026, 11:18 AM ET
Two top aides to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are leaving the US Department of Health and Human Services, according to three people familiar with the moves. HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill and General Counsel Mike Stuart are expected to soon leave HHS as part of a broader restructuring at the agency ahead of the midterm elections. Trump administration officials have discussed offering them other positions in the government, two people said.
O’Neill, who is second-in-command behind Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at HHS and the interim leader of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been a controversial figure at the agency, where he helped to amplify anti-vaccine messaging and concerns about Medicaid fraud, and cheered the United States’ departure from the World Health Organization.
Within the administration, O’Neill was viewed as a shaky public communicator who had struggled to find his fit within the department, one of the people familiar with the matter said. HHS did not immediately comment. The White House did not respond to a request for comment. Politico first reported the planned departures.
Although he doesn’t have any formal medical or public health background, O’Neill was named acting director at the CDC after the ouster of Dr. Susan Monarez in late August. Before coming to HHS, O’Neill was CEO of the Thiel Foundation and an investment manager at Clarium Capital. He previously served at HHS under President George W. Bush.
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And this is why the U.S. has now had the worst Measles outbreak in 3 decades.
Apparently it has been bad enough for other HHS hacks like the Wizard of Oz to actually cry uncle.
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