The Trump administration is widening its interpretation of a law banning most immigrants living in the United States from receiving federal public benefits to include 13 new categories of programs including Head Start preschool programs for low-income children.

Senator Chuck Schumer urged the health secretary to declare an emergency to keep other regions from experiencing the “nightmare” seen in Texas.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services July 10 rescinded a policy that extended certain federal public benefits to immigrants lacking permanent legal status. A 1998 interpretation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 previously allowed access to these benefits.

Public health advocates worry restricting care will hurt society while also raising insurance premiums to compensate.

A federal judge has ruled that recent mass layoffs at the US Department of Health and Human Services were likely unlawful and ordered the Trump administration to halt plans to downsize and reorganize the nation’s health workforce.

L.A. County health agencies said that the announced changes will have a “massive impact” on programs run by their departments and that restricting access will worsen health outcomes and “deepen systemic inequities.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy announced a policy change to PRWORA interpretation, restricting illegal immigrants from federal benefits, including early childhood education.

And more of these agents will mask themselves to avoid being held responsible for their actions — an abuse of power commonly associated with Eastern Bloc police states.

The lawsuit states that on June 13, the plaintiff states learned that HHS had transferred to DHS en mass Medicaid files from California, Illinois and Washington.

DOJ filed the statement of interest in United States District Court for the case Children’s Health Defense et al. v. Washington Post et al., which lists among its defendants the BBC, Reuters, the Associated Press,

Sebelius Florida v. Department of Health and Human Services ... Holding: The Anti-Injunction Act does not bar a challenge to the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act"s "individual mandate" provision, which requires virtually all Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, even though the mandate has not yet gone into effect.

The Department of Health and Human Services has asked some laid-off staff if they could return to work temporarily, as the department grapples with a backlog of grants that has swelled to more than a billion dollars in the wake of hurdles set up by DOGE.