A federal judge says that recent layoffs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were likely unlawful and must be halted. U.S.

A federal judge this week granted a preliminary injunction to halt mass layoffs at HHS, saying the Trump administration was not authorized to make sweeping changes to an agency created by Congress.

Mass layoffs and reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stalled out in federal court, as a judge sided with a coalition of 19 state attorneys general against subagencie | States won a partial block of mass layoffs and the HHS reorganization imposed by the Trump administration in a ruling by a federal district judge Tuesday.