Nineteen states and the District of Columbia are asking a federal trial court to block Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other federal officials from implementing mass terminations and restructuring at the US Department of Health and Human Services.
The actions, planned to take effect on June 2, were announced as part of Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” program, and will result in severe harms to the states’ health programs, the group said in a motion for a preliminary injunction filed in the US District Court for the District of Rhode Island May 9. The plan is unlawful and will ...