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A pair of labor groups representing employees in the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on Thursday filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump for trying to abolish decades -old humanitarian agency, as several sources C. NN told employees of less than 300 agency. Maintained while countless others are put on an indefinite vacation or fired.
Legal fodder Almost all of all foreign aid also takes the goal of the administration’s frozen – a move that has stopped humanitarian work around the world and has led to thousands of contractors being incited or released.
This is the first case filed against the USAID against the rapid succession.
The case was filed by the US Foreign Services Association (AFSA) and the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) in the Federal Court in Washington DC by the Democracy Forward and the Public Citizens Lation Group.
On Friday night, on the administrative leave or, most of all, it was filed as the most curvyed letter of USAID workforce. Contractor, finish.
An internal email stated by several sources states that less than 300 people will be kept as essential personnel. This is a huge shortage of manpower.
It is unclear whether the court will take steps on an emergency basis before eleven o’clock before Friday, when USAID has said that their direct rent personnel will be put on leave, leaving the exception, leaving the exception. –
Along with Trump, his secretary for Foreign Affairs Marco Rubio and his Treasury Secretary Scott Brestent and his agencies argue that the president is exceeding his authority in violation of the constitution and federal law.
Labor groups lawyers are demanding the court to order the administration to overturn the steps taken to close the agency and if the legalization is underway, “stop further steps to dissolve the agency”.
The legislature states, “None of the defendants’ move to abolish USAID has been taken according to Congress permission.” “And according to the federal law, Congress is the only institution that can legally abolish the agency.”
Groups say Trump’s recent actions are equivalent to illegally occupying the Congress authority.
The legalization states that “President Trump’s steps to dissolve the USAID exceed the Presidential Authority and violated the separation of powers, exceeds the legislative authority given to the Congress by the Constitution. Do. ”
AFSA President Tom Yazgardi said in a statement Thursday, “USAID was thrown out of the chaos and uncertainty of the government employees and their families with the removal of its foreign services members. ”
“These professionals have just done their career to advance the interests of the United States abroad, just overnight to find their livelihood.”
“The consequences of this obstacle are far more than individual career – it weakens the US leadership and destroys global stability around the world. AFSA will continue to defend its members and protect this essential workforce. Will advance all options.
Sky Perryman, the president and CEO of Democracy Forward, argued that “the Trump administration’s USAID is part of an integrated campaign to upset the Congress’s will and isolating the United States into the world.”
Trump claimed Monday that he did not need Congress at all to completely eliminate USAID, and says the president lacks legal authority to unilaterally abolish independent federal agencies like USAD Is
“No, when the matter is cheated. If there is a cheat, these people are crazy. “We just want to do the right thing. This is something that should have been a long time ago.
These groups have zero about the impact of various measures to eliminate the agency in recent times, including freezing on foreign aid and the extensive rid of US Aid contractors and grants.
He said that these measures have created a global humanitarian crisis by stopping the important work of USAID employees, grants and contractors. Thousands of American jobs have cost. And they have affected the interests of US national security, “the lawyers of the group wrote in legal action.
He added that “efforts to prevent children from dying from malaria were stopped by stopping USAID activities, clinical trials of pharmaceuticals were stopped, and HIV has been threatened with global rehabilitation.” Thousands of girls and women will now be born with 300 children.
CNN’s Alex Marcord, Lauren Kent and Sean Langas contributed to reporting.
