The downsizing includes pushing out about 10,000 full-time employees through early retirements, deferred resignations, and other efforts. Another 10,000 will be laid off in a brutal restructuring, bringing the total HHS workforce from 82,000 to 62,000.

The bipartisan coalition of states filed the suit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

After health secretary RFK Jr.’s ‘radical transparency’ pledge, HHS has shuttered much of the agency's communications and FOIA operations.

The mass firing of the Administration for Community Living's Center for Policy and Evaluation makes no sense as a cost-cutting move.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says sweeping layoffs and restructuring in the department will bring order to a bureaucracy he claims is in "pandemonium." But experts say the overhaul also likely gives him far greater control over dozens of federal health agencies.

Though the funding cancellation could cost up to $11 billion for the affected states, the release said Maryland could face up to $200 million in lost money alone.

Two Wall Street analysts on Monday called on the Trump administration to “re-evaluate” Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s role as the secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services department, saying his “apparent anti-science and libertarian agenda” threatened public health.

The Trump administration has carried out mass layoffs across the Department of Health and Human Services, aiming to slash around 10,000 full-time jobs from the federal agencies long tasked with regulating food and drugs and overseeing the nation’s public health policies.