THE CENTER SQUARE—Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is being sued by California, New York, Washington, Arizona, Colorado, and other states over what they call the dismantling of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department.
Plaintiffs in the suit filed Monday against the HHS secretary also include Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin.
Filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, the suit challenges Kennedy’s March 27 directive cutting about 10,000 jobs. At the time, the Health and Human Services Department said the cuts, which were in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order on the same day calling for reductions at federal agencies, would save $1.8 billion a year.
But Monday’s…
