States are suing the National Institutes of Health over ending life-saving medical research grants that Trump officials say were "DEI studies."

A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order Thursday that stops the Trump administration from pulling back more than $11 billion dollars in public health funding from state and local

North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson joined a lawsuit Tuesday to prevent the federal government's termination of more than $230 million in health care funding for the state, his office said.

Though the funding cancellation could cost up to $11 billion for the affected states, the release said Maryland could face up to $200 million in lost money alone.

King County is already feeling the effects of cuts to the federal Health & Human Services Department led by RFK Jr.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said ‘bureaucracies’ such as the HHS became ‘wasteful and inefficient.’

Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mass firings have begun at the Health and Human Services Department. HHS employees started receiving layoff emails on Tuesday, just days after Trump signed an executive order revoking the collective bargaining rights of most federal workers. Ten thousand HHS workers are expected to be fired.