19 states sue RFK Jr., Trump administration for overhauling HHS
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🗓️ 6 May 2025
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USA TODAY White House Correspondent Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy discusses a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's efforts to overhaul the Department of Health and Human Services.
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| 0:19.9 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Tuesday, May 6th, 2025. This is the excerpt. |
| 0:30.6 | Today, what's at stake as state sue over health and human services cuts? Plus, what's next for Israel's plans in Gaza and seriously delinquent student |
| 0:38.8 | loan borrowers hit a record high. 19 Democratic state attorneys general are filing a federal |
| 0:46.0 | lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's efforts to overhaul the Department of Health and |
| 0:50.1 | Human Services. I spoke with the USA Today, White House correspondent Swapna Venigopal Ramoswamy, |
| 0:55.0 | who joined me from outside the White House to learn more. Swapna, thanks for wrapping on today. |
| 0:59.0 | Thank you, Taylor, for having me. |
| 1:01.0 | So just starting here before we get to this lawsuit, let's go back to March. Tell us about this |
| 1:04.5 | restructuring plan that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced, and how is it really part of this broader push from the Trump administration? Secretary Kennedy basically said his dramatic restructuring plan would save taxpayers about |
| 1:17.1 | $1.8 billion per year, and that would be through a downsizing plan. And that involves 20,000 fewer |
| 1:25.8 | full-time employees. So it would go from about $82,000 to about $ 20,000 fewer full-time employees. |
| 1:32.5 | So it would go from about 82,000 to about 62,000 employees. |
| 1:37.3 | And Secretary Kennedy also says it will not be affecting any critical programs. Some of the details of the plans include consolidating divisions, which will go from about 28 to about 15, centralizing functions |
| 1:46.8 | such as HR and IT. And they're also shutting down certain regional offices. You know, it'll go from |
| 1:53.8 | about 10 to about five. That's the overall plan. All right. So fast forward to this moment. |
| 1:58.8 | Why are Democratic State Attorneys General now |
| 2:01.3 | suing? And really specifically, what do they criticize about these guts? Well, the coalition |
| 2:05.3 | basically describes there are about 19 attorneys general who are bringing this lawsuit. And what |
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