Federal judge blocks mass layoffs and reorganization plans at HHS
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Washington — A federal judge in Rhode Island has blocked the Department of Health and Human Services from implementing mass layoffs and overhauling some of its sub-agencies, finding there to be "no rational basis" for the Trump administration's reorganization plans that would have "devastating consequences" across the country if enacted.
The suit was brought by 19 Democratic attorneys general and Washington, D.C., in May, seeking to block an agency restructuring plan announced by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in March.
Their complaint warned of "severe, complicated, and potentially irreversible" consequences to public health services nationwide if the plan went forward, potentially "paralyzing" the agency "by means of a confusing reorganization."
