19 Blue States Sue Over “Dismantling” Of HHS Services

USA Today reports:

New York Attorney General Letitia James and 18 other Democratic state attorneys general are filing a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to overhaul the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services by shrinking its size and laying off employee who oversee the nation’s food and health care systems.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in March announced a major restructuring plan including the consolidation of divisions from 28 to 15 and elimination of 20,000 full-time employees, saying it would save taxpayers $1.8 billion per year.

In a statement on May 5, James said the states’ lawsuit in Rhode Island U.S. district court takes aim at Kennedy Jr.’s “reckless, irrational, and dangerous” efforts that erase decades of public health progress and leaves the federal government “unable to execute many of its most vital functions.”

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