A coalition of 19 states argued that the massive layoffs of the Trump administration were illegal and caused “irreparable damage”
A Federal Judge has blocked Trump Administration of completing mass dismissals in the Department of Health and Human Services, being probably illegitimate and caused “irreparable damage“In the states.
The Judge of the North -American District, Melissa Dubose, wrote that the Coalition of General Lawyers of 19 States and the District of Columbia probably prevailed in his claims that “HHS action was both arbitrary and whimsical in addition to the contrary to the law. “HHS is obliged to submit a state report On July 11.
“The executive branch does not have the authority to order, organize or implement wholesale changes in the structure and function of the agencies created by Congress,” Dubose wrote in his order.
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The Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., fired more than 10,000 employees and condensed 28 health agencies to 15 in March, according to Associated Press. Since then, agencies such as diseases control and prevention centers have terminated hundreds of employees in branches that control hepatitis, HIV and other diseases.
It was said that the cuts, which are part of Kennedy’s “Make America Again” directive, followed the efforts of the former Elon Musk Government Efficiency Department in reduction of redundancies and the rationalization of expensive agencies. In fact, the layoffs erased key teams that regulated food security, drugs and tobacco, avoided HIV and cared for maternal and childhood health.
Kennedy has said since March that, due to errors, 20% of firefighters can be reinstated.
General lawyers seeking the preliminary system granted by Dubose argued that restructuring and widespread reduction fell outside the HHS authority scope. Its demand also claims that it destroyed essential health programs and promoted overwhelming costs in the states.
“The intended effect … It was the wholesale removal of many HHS programs that are critical of health and public health,” the demand said.
Dubose’s ruling is applied to the CDC finished employees, at the Food and Drug Administration Tobacus Products Center, the head office start of the Administration for children and families and the Office of the Deputy Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
Kennedy has modified the theories of health -related conspiracy over two decades. He falsely stated that vaccines cause autism; that Covid-19 was exaggerated to promote vaccines; that wireless technology causes cancer; that fluorine causes diseases; that massive traits are linked to prescription drugs; And that the flu vaccines are not safe.
In 2023, his sister, Kerry Kennedy, called his comments on a Covid-19 virus genetically designed “deplorable and unmatched”. His brother, Joseph Kennedy II, told the Boston Globe the statements were “morally and in fact wrong” and “played the anti -Semitic myths and distrust of the Chinese” that “in no way reflect the words and actions of our father, Robert F. Kennedy.”