California, other states sue to block Trump administration cuts to health department

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : It has separately sued the Trump administration over Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to cut billions of dollars in federal public health grants aimed at increasing state resilience to infectious disease, based on similar arguments about the administration overreaching its authority to contradict decisions by Congress on federal spending.
41% : Health and Human Services characterized the changes as a "dramatic restructuring" of the agency in line with an executive order by President Trump in February that tasked advisor Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency with "eliminating waste, bloat, and insularity" in the federal workforce, including through mass firings.
22% : " "That's the entire American public, because our goal is to Make America Healthy Again," he said, repeating a slogan the Trump campaign took up after Kennedy suspended his own presidential bid to back Trump in August.
20% : HHS characterized the changes as a "dramatic restructuring" of the agency in line with an executive order by President Trump targeting "waste, bloat, and insularity" in the federal workforce.

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