Washington – A federal judge in Road Island has stopped the Department of Health and Human Services from implementing large -scale layoffs and overhalling some of it. The sub-agency should not have “no rational basis” for the restructuring plans of the Trump administration, which will be “destructive results” across the country when implemented.
trial Was brought 19 Democratic Attorney General and Washington, by DC, in May, demanding blocking an agency restructuring plan Announced HHS Secretary Robert F. in March. By Kennedy Junior.
His complaint warned of “serious, complex and potentially irreversible” results for nationwide public health services, if the plan proceeded, probably “to the agency” paralysis through a misleading reorganization. ,
“Important public health services have been disrupted, database is taken offline, the status of grants thrown in anarchy, technical support services, and training and counseling services were curbed. These are not unnatural fears,” Judge Melissa Dabos. Wrote in his opinion Providing the request of states for initial prohibition.
He said, “HHS has failed to produce a piece of evidence that services and important information in states will continue uninterrupted, whether the losses are minimal or irreplaceable, or that it is authorized to take action of the absent Congress,” he said.
The judge also ordered the parties whether and how belonged to the Supreme Court Recent limiting ruling universal prohibition One should apply on his order.
The states cited concerns with the Disease Control and Prevention Center, FDA’s Tobacco Product Center, Office of Head Start and Reorganization in Assistant Secretary’s Office for Planning and Assessment.
“The Executive Branch does not have the right to order, organize or implement wholesale changes for the structure and function of agencies created by the Congress,” Dabos wrote.
As part of Kennedy’s restructuring plan, he moved to laying some 10,000 employees in the country’s health agencies and ordered the remaining officers to plan to reorganize their work. Many offices and teams have been slated to transfer under plans, many in a new agency want to make Kennedy a healthy America, or AHA called administration.
Most of the employees stay away from the job after receiving their pruning notice in April, but are still being paid, due to cases that demand to block their termination.
New York Attorney General James said in a statement after the ruling, “HHS is the backbone of our country’s public health and social security nets – cancer tests and maternal health to childhood education and prevention of domestic violence,” New York Attorney General James said in a statement.
In May, a federal court in California blocked the trump administration’s efforts of the Trump administration, including HHS, although Supreme Court is considering Whether the prohibition of the lower court is raised and allows it to proceed with the administration’s plans for force, or reduction in sorting.
Kennedy said at a House Energy and Commerce Committee, “Those who were subject to lack of force. Hearing Last week.
Several federal health officials said that plans are on for the next stages of restructuring and merger, even Kennedy has cited the decisions of the court as a reason to dodge questions about restructuring on Capital Hill.
Officials of the Health Resources and Services Administration visited the CDC premises in Atlanta in recent weeks, said, in a meeting of senior leaders between the two agencies.
Most of the remaining teams focusing on chronic disease from two agencies have to start to move to the new AHA agency, said Kennedy said, if the prohibition is removed.
Since the initial cut, a few hundred trimmeds have also been reversed in weeks, including scientists, researchers and health officials. National institute of vocational safety and health And this Faka,
But the authorities have also been told that the Trump administration can demand further pruning from the health agencies so that those jobs can be “balanced”.
“At that point, we will decide. And, you know, in some cases, our ability to do our duties has been gaps. I have brought back people,” Kennedy said.
