Elon Musk says the website is darkened as USAID put on ‘Wood Chapar’
The United States Agency for International Development is the world’s largest foreign aid agency.
WASHINGTON – Group representing foreign aid workers are sued the Trump administration to try to stop the end of international development for the US agency, and what is happening to the humanitarian agency “Illegal The tour has been declared “.
“This is a real moral crisis,” said Lauren Batman, a lawyer for the public citizen, who is helping the US Federation of Government Employees and the American Foreign Service Association.
The case filed in the DC Federal Court Washington, DC Federal Court on Thursday states that thousands of jobs are costing thousands of jobs on the administration’s stopwork orders, freezing funds and reduction of staff, from which the US national Security interests are in danger and humanity is causing destruction.
President Donald Trump has accused the agency of saying the White House is ridiculous.
About 10,000 USAID employees were told this week that they would be kept on an administrative holiday at the end of Friday.
The only exception is for the “mission-weed functions, basic leadership and specially designated programs”.
Less than 300 will remain.
About two -thirds of USAID employees work in 60 countries abroad.
Randy Chester, president of the American Foreign Service Association, said employees could cost more than $ 20 million to bring home.
“Children will be pulled out of schools. Spouses are losing jobs, and without any clear plan, the family has been put into uncertainty,” said Chester, “said Chester,” said Chester, “this sudden, non Organized, not to mention the cost of US taxpayers for the departure of chaos. “
Foreign Secretary Marco Rubio told reporters this week that the administration would have preferred to handle USAID’s review in a “more systematic way”.
“But we had no support, and in fact they had no renovation, and so we need to work below,” he said.
The case claims that under the current law, only Congress can abolish USAID.
But USAID’s internal structure is not based in law, said Hans Van Spakoski, a senior legal colleague of the Conservative Heritage Foundation.
He said, and it will also extend who the employees are and how many employees are. “” So if (Trump) wants to turn it into a hollow shell. … he can do it.
According to Congress research services, any structural change in USAID is made in consultation with the Congress.
Scott R Anderson, who is now a former US diplomat and a government attorney at the Brookings Institution, said the administration took steps this week to inform the Congress this week to try to meet the need. Work with lawmakers on nine.
“If he is in fact a good faith, he can be on a better legal basis,” he said. “This can still be AA destruction from a policy point of view.”
