President Donald Trump hired a stable of Cabinet officials who shared the same vision of eliminating government waste, and the dividends continue to add up.

According to the Independent, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to make a massive firing move at the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, which "helps determine what preventative care services insurers must cover for free.

Kennedy said the move comes as he believes the members of the group have traveled too far into "woke" territory, and he's ready to gut the task force to root the wokeness out.

If he goes through with the cuts, it'll come on the heels of a similar move he made last month by axing all of the members of a vaccine advisory board.

What's going on?

The task force came about as a result of former President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare. The task force was formed in 2010.

The Independent noted:

Under 2010’s Affordable Care Act, the task force makes evidence-based, public recommendations on a variety of treatments, ranging HIV prevention to prenatal care to mental health, that insurers must cover at no cost to patients.

A final decision on whether or not he'll go through with firing the task force hasn't been officially made, but it was reported that he became especially unhappy with the task force after it was accused by a right-leaning news outlet that it had become a "festering corner of woke bureaucracy."

The author of the piece that made the accusation, written in The American Conservative, wrote that "The task force is packed with Biden administration appointees devoted to the ideological capture of medicine."

A group of over 100 health organizations also warned about the task force's work in a scathing letter.

"The loss of trustworthiness in the rigorous and nonpartisan work of the Task Force would devastate patients, hospital systems, and payers as misinformation creates barriers to accessing lifesaving and cost-effective care," the letter read.

Detractors

Of course, there are those who believe that the disbanding of the task force and the cancellation of the July meeting will do more harm.

Dr. Bobby Mukkamala, president of the American Medical Association, was one of those. He released a statement on his thoughts on the cancelling of a recent task force meeting.

"When something works well and helps inform doctors about how to take care of their patients, to postpone the task force’s work just doesn’t make any sense," Mukkamala said.

He added, "This flies in the face of what is good for the country’s health."