Democrats in 25 States and DC Sue Federal Government Over Medicaid Work Requirements

A coalition of 25 states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration on June 29 over a new federal rule implementing Medicaid work requirements, arguing the regulation impermissibly rewrites the underlying law and will strip coverage from people who remain eligible.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, was co-led by the attorneys general of Massachusetts, California, and New Jersey—Andrea Joy Campbell, Rob Bonta, and Jennifer Davenport, respectively. 
It targets an interim final rule issued June 1 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and names CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as defendants in their official capacities, alongside their agencies….