WI Attorney General Josh Kaul secured a preliminary injunction halting Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s attempt to dismantle the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), ensuring continued access to critical public health and social service programs. On May 5, Attorney General Kauljoined a coalition of 19 attorneys general in suing to stop the administration’s sweeping and unlawful directive, which left HHS unable to carry out many of its most vital functions. On July 1, Judge Melissa R. Dubose of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island blocked the administration’s mass layoffs at several key HHS agencies while the case proceeds. “This ruling for now stops this Trump administration effort to substantially downsize the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which would meaningfully diminish that agency’s ability to protect the health of the American people. We will continue working to prevent public health from being unlawfully undermined.” – AG Kaul