{"id":23547,"date":"2025-05-05T19:19:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T19:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/19-states-sue-trump-administration-over-mass-hhs-layoffs\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T19:19:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T19:19:18","slug":"19-states-sue-trump-administration-over-mass-hhs-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/19-states-sue-trump-administration-over-mass-hhs-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"19 states sue Trump administration over mass HHS layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Over a dozen states sued the Trump administration Monday for laying off thousands of Health and Human Services staffers, urging a court to reverse job cuts that they argue brought work at large swaths of the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/rfk-jr-interview-takeaways-measles-food-dyes-weight-loss-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr<\/a><\/span>.-led health agency to a &#8220;sudden halt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.rid.59507\/gov.uscourts.rid.59507.1.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">filed in Rhode Island federal court<\/a> by New York, California, 17 other states and Washington, D.C. \u2014 claims the Trump administration has sought to &#8220;dismantle&#8221; HHS through layoffs that disproportionately hit &#8220;disfavored work and programs,&#8221; like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News has reached out to HHS for comment.<\/p>\n<p>HHS is aiming to <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/job-cuts-federal-health-agencies-rfk-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">cut its headcount by 20,000<\/a><\/span> \u2014 or nearly 25% \u2014 through a combination of layoffs, buyouts and early retirement offers, the department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/press-room\/hhs-restructuring-doge.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> in March, framing it as a &#8220;dramatic restructuring&#8221; aimed at making HHS more efficient and cutting redundant or unnecessary services. The cuts are part of a wider initiative by the Trump administration, led by billionaire <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/100-days-of-doge-elon-musk-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Elon Musk<\/a><\/span>, to slash the size of the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, thousands of HHS staff have <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/hhs-layoffs-federal-agencies-track-disease-regulate-food-health-insurance\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">gotten layoff notices<\/a><\/span>. The cuts have hit large agencies like the FDA and CDC, along with <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/worker-safety-agency-niosh-lays-off-most-remaining-staff\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">departments<\/a><\/span> that handle <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/samhsa-mental-health-agency-doge-job-cuts-988-hotline\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">mental health<\/a><\/span>, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-hhs-poverty-levels-medicaid-benefits\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">federal poverty guidelines<\/a><\/span> and other services, CBS News has previously reported. Deep cuts <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/scientists-fear-trump-administration-nih-cuts-could-impact-health-60-minutes-transcript\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">are also slated<\/a><\/span> for the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nih-lays-off-hundreds-more-staff-cancer-research-institute\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">National Institutes of Health<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s lawsuit, which names Kennedy and other HHS leaders as defendants, argues these job cuts have &#8220;systematically deprived HHS of the resources necessary to do its job.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The layoffs have allegedly cut off the states from data and made it harder to access grants for everything from <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/worker-safety-agency-niosh-lays-off-most-remaining-staff\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">worker safety<\/a><\/span> to the Head Start preschool program, the lawsuit argues. The suit also says the agency has shuttered key <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/rfk-jr-cdc-labs-stds-hepatitis\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">disease<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fda-to-reverse-some-layoffs-food-drug-safety\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">testing labs<\/a><\/span>, forcing them to &#8220;find new partners to handle their most difficult testing needs that had previously been handled by the CDC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The states are asking a federal judge to halt Kennedy&#8217;s directive to reorganize and cut the HHS, arguing the moves exceed HHS&#8217;s legal authority and violate the Constitution&#8217;s separation of powers doctrine by slashing programs authorized by Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The suit also takes aim at Kennedy&#8217;s views, citing his vaccine skepticism and &#8220;history of advocating for the evisceration of the Department&#8217;s statutorily mandated work promoting public health.&#8221; It also pointed to Kennedy&#8217;s <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/rfk-jr-hhs-job-cuts-doge-mistakes\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">acknowledgement<\/a><\/span> that 20% of job cuts at the HHS may need to be reversed due to &#8220;mistakes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s suit is the latest legal action against the Trump administration&#8217;s <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/doge-cuts-cost-135-billion-analysis-elon-musk-department-of-government-efficiency\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">cost-cutting drive<\/a><\/span>. Almost two dozen states <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-administration-lawsuit-hhs-cuts-public-health-funding\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">sued HHS last month<\/a><\/span> for cutting public health grants, and labor unions have sued the government over cuts to other agencies.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/joe-walsh\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Joe  Walsh<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Joe Walsh is a senior editor for digital politics at CBS News. 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