Department of Health and Human Services staffers will brief members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee about the agency’s mass layoffs under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., The Hill reports.

Democrats on the panel are demanding a hearing on efforts to downsize the agency’s workforce by as many as 20,000 staffers be attended by Kennedy himself, but the Hill reports that Republicans have committed only to holding a briefing with agency staffers.

A spokesperson for Democrats on the panel said in a statement on Thursday that “Democrats haven’t been invited to attend” the staff briefing.

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