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Josh Kaul Blames feds for Milwaukee's Lead Problem
Wisconsin’s attorney general is suing over the federal budget cuts that he says are making Milwauke’s lead paint response worse.
A-G Josh Kaul on Monday announced that he is suing the Trump Administration over cuts to the federal Department of Health and Human Services that emptied out HHS’ lead paint expert team.
“A dangerous mix of conspiracy theories and the extreme ideology reflected by DOGE are causing a staggering amount of damage to the extraordinarily important work of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, resulting in increased and unnecessary risk to people’s health and wellbeing,” Kaul said in a statement.
Kaul is joining 19 other attorneys general in the lawsuit.
They are arguing, specifically, that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. ordered cuts at the beginning of April that gutted many, specialized offices inside of HHS.
For Milwaukee that means the loss of a team inside the CDC's Lead Poisoning Prevention office.
Milwaukee’s health department and the city’s school district reached out to that office to help with MPS’ lead paint clean-up.
The city’s health department said, however, that because of the cuts there was no one in Washington, D.C. to help them.
Milwaukee Public Schools are just beginning to clean and clear lead paint that’s been in the city’s school buildings for decades.
Monday say MPS close the Westside Academy building, likely for the rest of the school year, because of dangerously high lead levels. Two other MPS schools remain closed because of lead problems in each. And MPS has said it needs to test another 100 schools for potential lead problems.
Kaul, and the other A-Gs, argue that the cuts from the Trump Administration "robbed HHS of the resources necessary to effectively serve the American people and will be asking the court to halt further dismantling and restore key program operations."
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