Trump administration cannot proceed with overhaul of US health agencies, court rules
Source: msn/Reuters
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(Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Wednesday refused for now to allow U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to proceed with a planned overhaul of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which would involve reorganizing several agencies and firing thousands of employees.
A three-judge panel of the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to lift a federal judge's injunction secured by several Democratic-led states. They had challenged a plan U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr announced in March to carry out a large-scale reorganization of the department.
The 1st Circuit rejected the Trump administration's claims that the states could not show they would be immediately harmed if the injunction is lifted pending an appeal. The panel noted that the lower court relied on hundreds of pages of testimony from state officials.
"The government does not explain how the district court clearly erred in crediting these uncontroverted facts," the court said in an unsigned order. All three judges were appointed by former President Joe Biden, a Democrat. HHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James, which is spearheading the lawsuit, declined to comment.
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