Employees across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began receiving notices of dismissal Tuesday, as part of a major overhaul expected to ultimately lay off up to 10,000 people. The notices come just days after President Donald Trump moved to strip workers of their collective bargaining rights at HHS and other government agencies.

The cuts were part of a Trump administration plan announced last week to dismiss thousands of employees and drastically overhaul the Health and Human Services Department under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department have begun receiving notices of dismissal in an overhaul ultimately expected to lay off up to 10,000 people

Switzer Memorial Building in Washington on Tuesday.Credit...Roberto Schmidt/Agence France-Presse — Health job cuts: The Trump administration laid off thousands of federal health workers, dismissing senior leaders and top scientists in a purge that outside experts and former officials said would cause an immeasurable loss of expertise.

A massive wave of job cuts got underway at US health agencies Tuesday, with some employees receiving early-morning emails saying their jobs were eliminated and some unable to access the building when they arrived at work.

Employees across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began receiving notices of dismissal Tuesday, as part of a major overhaul expected to ultimately lay off up to 10,000 people

Thousands of people responsible for tracking health trends and disease outbreaks, conducting and funding medical research, monitoring the safety of food and medicine, and administering health insurance programs for nearly half of the country were laid off Tuesday at the nation’s top health agencies.

As they readied to leave work Monday, some workers at the Food and Drug Administration were told to pack their laptops and prepare for the possibility that they wouldn’t be back

A coalition of 23 states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration Tuesday over $11 billion in cuts to public health grants.

E mployees of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) knew that mass layoffs would be coming on April 1. But many did not expect the cuts to be so deep—or the implications of the layoffs to be so potentially detrimental to the health and wellbeing of American families.

Democratic attorneys general in 23 states and Washington, DC, have filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Health and Human Services and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., alleging that the department’s sudden rollback of $12 billion in public health funding was unlawful and harmful.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is joining 22 other states and the District of Columbia in suing the Trump administration over sweeping cuts in public health funding. Raoul said President Trump was elected to make changes,

Kennedy Jr. is also named as a defendant. A two-dozen-state coalition is suing the federal health department for what it says has been a sudden and unlawful $11 billion cut in public health grants to the states.

Beshear is one of two Democratic governors participating in the suit. The other states are represented by state attorneys general.

Attorneys general from 23 states and the District of Columbia are suing the Trump administration for its decision to claw back $12 billion that went to public health departments for COVID-19 efforts a

Dr. Simone Wildes, an infectious disease specialist at South Shore Health, spoke to NewsCenter 5's Maria Stephanos and Shayna Seymour about how Massachusetts will be impacted by the federal government's cuts to public health funding.

The lawsuit follows a decision by the Trump administration to cancel $11 billion in Department of Health and Human Services funding nationwide.