A coalition of Democratic governors and attorneys general in 23 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for the department’s cuts of $12 billion in public health funding.
At the center of that is a cut of $11.4 billion from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention allocated to state and community health departments during the COVID-19 pandemic response. The CDC said they expect to begin recovering the funds in around 30 days, according to HHS.
The states argue that although these cut funds were allocated during the pandemic, they were not intended only for response to COVID-19. There is an additional $1 billion from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
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