According to a document reviewed by people familiar with the matter and the media, the US Department of Health and Human Services told the Congressional Appropriations Committee earlier this year that it plans to allocate about 12 million US dollars from its Minority Health Office to cover the rising security expenses of Secretary of Health Robert Kennedy Jr. According to several people familiar with the matter, Kennedy is a well-known figure in the Trump administration, and his father and uncle were both assassinated in the 1960s. His security expenses increased from about $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026. People familiar with the matter said that the minister's office itself has a freely disposable fund, which could have been used to cover this security expenditure. However, as the department was experiencing full budget cuts, the Department of Health and Human Services eventually cut $12 million from the Office of Ethnic Minority Health rather than just $7 million representing an increase in security costs.

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