Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, told reporters on Thursday that he plans to restore many employees and programs that he began to reduce last week.

In the comments of the head, Kennedy said he knew he was dismissed more workers than necessary when he announced 10,000 employment cuts of the so -called Eld Musk Efficiency Department.

“There were a number of cases in which studies were cut that should not have been cut, and we reinstall them. The personnel that should not have been cut were cut: we restored them, and that was always the plan,” he said while talking with a press group in a primary school in Alexandria, Virginia.

Those job losses, which left thousands of Americans fighting for work and led to research that save lives to a dead point, are part of “rationalizing agencies,” he said.

“The part of that, Dogs, we talk about this from the beginning, is that we will make 80% cuts, but 20% of them will have to be reinstated, because we will make mistakes,” Kennedy said. “And one of the things that President Trump has said is that if we make mistakes, we will admit it and we will remedy it.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks after sworn in the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Oval Office on February 13.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks after sworn in the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Oval Office on February 13.

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The equipment hit by the dismissals focused on the consumption of tobacco, armed violence, air quality, occupational safety, infectious diseases, HIV, hepatitis and tuberculosis.

When asked about the destroying of a program of for diseases and prevention focused on monitoring lead exposure in children, Kennedy said he thinks he is returning, but that he is not really sure.

“There were some programs that were cut that they are being restored, and I think that is one,” he said.

But Erik Svendsen, the director of the division that supervised the lead poisoning program, told ABC News that he received no word about the program that was restored.

Other workers, said Kennedy, he believes that they will be reinstated include employees who work in certain studies and communications and human resources workers.

This is not the first time that Trump officials admit to having error the government’s jobs. In February, the Department of Agriculture said that he had made an error by saying goodbye to employees who work in the government response to the avian flu, a growing outbreak that caused egg prices to shoot.

And last month, the CDC asked about 180 employees dismissed to return to work.

Email to employees said: “We apologize for any interruption that this may have caused.”