Colorado is poised to lose more than $229 million after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services decided to pull back some $11 billion in COVID-19 related grants to states and local health departments.
Attorney General Phil Weiser said Colorado joined about two dozen states in suing the federal health department and Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. to try and overturn the grant terminations.
Under both the first Trump administration and the Biden administration, billions of dollars was allocated for COVID response through legislation, including a relief bill and the American Rescue Plan Act…