Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is offering federal employees a financial incentive to leave the Department of Health and Human Services, as the Trump administration continues its efforts to trim government waste in Washington D.C.

The voluntary buyout offer gives HHS workers a five-day window, starting Monday, to decide whether to take $25,000 and run.

It's an example of how Kennedy, a former Democrat long derided as a "conspiracy theorist" before emerging to become the most influential member of his famous family in decades, is helping Trump reshape the federal government.

RFK Jr. offers buyout

In February, about 75,000 federal employees accepted a separate "buyout" from the Trump administration offering eight full months of pay and benefits.

HHS has a budget of $1.7 trillion, making it one of the costliest agencies in the federal government. HHS administers Medicare and Medicaid, two programs considered essential by millions of Americans.

President Trump has faced backlash from Democrats over his joint efforts with Elon Musk to gut the federal workforce. Democrats have also accused Trump of wanting to cut Medicaid, which provides health insurance to poor people at low or no cost.

"I'm not going to touch Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. We're going to get fraud out of there," Trump told Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures.

Most of the 80,000 employees at HHS received a mass email this week offering up to $25,000 to resign, the AP reported. They have until 5 p.m. on Friday to make a decision.

Kennedy, critic of health bureaucracy, now in charge

Kennedy, who ran for president initially as a Democrat, eventually suspended his bid to forge an alliance with Trump, who promised to let Kennedy "go wild" in his effort to "Make America Healthy Again."

Despite backlash over his skepticism of vaccines, the Senate confirmed Kennedy to the president's Cabinet, putting him in a powerful position to advance his controversial views on public health.

Within weeks of taking his new government position, Kennedy is facing scrutiny over his handling of a deadly measles outbreak that has killed one child.

Kennedy has often been critical of agencies like the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, which are housed within HHS.

In a recent interview, he told Fox News' Laura Ingraham he has a "generic list" of HHS employees who don't belong in government.

“If you’ve been involved in good science, you have got nothing to worry about,” Kennedy told Fox News last month. “If you care about public health, you’ve got nothing to worry about. If you’re in there working for the pharmaceutical industry, then I’d say you should move out and work for the pharmaceutical industry.”