Former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Donna Shalala criticized the Trump administration's efforts to cut back the department she once led, calling it an insult that puts Americans' health at risk.

In an op-ed for Stat News published Thursday, Shalala said the administration was "insulting a generation of patriotic federal workers, proposing a silly new bureaucracy, and appointing people who are anti-science and anti-government with no management or leadership experience."

"That’s exactly [what] you would do if you wanted to have no positive impact on the country’s health,........

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