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Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. faces a federal lawsuit filed by 20 state attorneys general on Monday over his “dismantling” of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

“This administration is not streamlining the federal government; they are sabotaging it and all of us,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement.

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According to the lawsuit, the cuts have, among other things:

* slashed the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration by half,

* halted the National Survey on Drug Use and Health,

* sacked the entire maternal health team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),

* shut down the federal fertility tracking program,

* undermined the nation’s HIV/AIDS response, and

* reduced the number of doctors able to certify cancer diagnoses in the World Trade Center Health Program.

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Over the course of a few days in late March and early April, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. […] dismantled the Department in violation of Congress’s instructions, the U.S. Constitution, and the many statutes that govern the Department’s programs and appropriate funds for it to administer.”

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All told, 20,000 full-time employees—almost twenty-five percent of HHS headcount—would be terminated in a few months to save, by Defendants’ own estimate, less than one percent of HHS expenditures.

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Some of the DOGE-related changes are even visible on the CDC website, which says the agency stopped accepting applications for respirators.

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