The power center of the Department of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration turns out to be an office full of attorneys that people may have not heard of.
The Office of the General Counsel—which has been in existence for more than half a century—has added more than 100 lawyers since President Donald Trump took office and become more willing to risk lawsuits to push through policy changes under HHS Secretary Alex Azar, an alumnus of that office. The newly aggressive approach emulates legal strategies employed by the Labor Department and Environmental Protection Agency among other agencies.
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