SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came into his job vowing to shake things up at the Department of Health and Human Services. Here he is in a social media video back in March, just after he was sworn in.

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ROBERT F KENNEDY JR: We're going to eliminate an entire alphabet soup of departments and agencies while preserving their core functions by merging them into a new organization called the Administration for a Healthy America, or AHA.

SIMON: Secretary Kennedy did follow through on eliminating thousands of staff in departments, but whatever happened to AHA? NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin has been looking into this. Thanks for being with us.

SELENA SIMMONS-DUFFIN, BYLINE: Hi, Scott.

SIMON: Does the Administration for a Healthy America, AHA, exist?

SIMMONS-DUFFIN: No, it does not. And not only that, there's almost no public information about when it will be formed and what it will in

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