{"id":3575,"date":"2025-05-05T23:02:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T23:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/coalition-19-states-lawsuit-challenge-hhs-cuts-rfk-jr\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T23:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T23:02:35","slug":"coalition-19-states-lawsuit-challenge-hhs-cuts-rfk-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/coalition-19-states-lawsuit-challenge-hhs-cuts-rfk-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"20 attorneys general ask federal judge to reverse deep cuts to HHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    20 attorneys general ask federal judge to reverse deep cuts to HHS<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Attorneys general in 19 states and Washington, D.C., are challenging cuts to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/us-department-of-health-and-human-services\">U.S. Health and Human Services<\/a>\u00a0agency, saying the Trump administration\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/health-human-services-layoffs-restructuring-rfk-jr-fa4e89285e668a3939e20b6cf4c26fd4\">massive restructuring<\/a>\u00a0has destroyed life-saving programs and left states to pick up the bill for mounting health crises.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Rhode Island on Monday, New York Attorney General Letitia James said. The attorneys general from Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia signed onto the complaint.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/05\/05\/coalition-19-states-lawsuit-challenge-hhs-cuts-rfk-jr\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Associated Press<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/05\/05\/coalition-19-states-lawsuit-challenge-hhs-cuts-rfk-jr\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 attorneys general ask federal judge to reverse deep cuts to HHS Attorneys general in 19 states and Washington, D.C., are challenging cuts to the\u00a0U.S. Health and Human Services\u00a0agency, saying the Trump administration\u2019s\u00a0massive restructuring\u00a0has destroyed life-saving programs and left states to pick up the bill for mounting health crises. The lawsuit was filed in federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2147,153,2144,2149],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-3575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hhs","category-legal","category-politics","category-rfk-jr","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}