‘Total Transparency’: RFK Jr. Pledges To Restore HHS Public Records Requests Slowed By DOGE
By Emily Kopp, Daily Caller News Found., April 23, 2025
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged at a press conference Tuesday to restore the production of federal records.
Those records, requested by members of the public, were said to be slowed by Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts.
Kennedy also said he will create a new website for HHS documents.
Kennedy said he would seek to publish a greater number of documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) — a 1967 law that allows members of the public to obtain government records with some limited exceptions such as information pertaining to national security and trade secrets. The new landing page could include records requested and released previously but unavailable on the HHS website.
HHS currently hosts an online reading room for some records, but it does not serve as a repository of every document released under a FOIA request.
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