The US government’s largest Workers Union and the Association of Foreign Services Workers on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in an attempt to end the US agency’s offensive for international development.
The case filed by the US Federation of Government Employees and the American Foreign Service Association in Washington, DC Federal Court, is looking for a ruling that its “unconstitutional and illegal actions” are “global humanitarianism.” Crisis “created.
President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Basent are among the nominees, but The text of the suit Elon Musk and his “performance of the department’s government” have been widely focused on social media measures and statements.
The plaintiffs said, “The consequences of humanitarian sympathy for the defendants’ actions have already been disastrous.” “USAID provides life -saving food, medicines and support to hundreds of thousands of people around the world. To implement this mission without agency partners, US -led medical clinics, soup kitchen, refugees assist The program, and countless other programs were immediately stopped.
On January 20, Trump’s ruling is called illegal, the day he was inaugurated, withholding US foreign aid. Subsequently, orders to stop USAID projects around the world, agency computer system and staff were suddenly abandoned or kept on leave.
The White House and the departments did not immediately respond to the comments requests.
The agency’s gutting is largely massive, the world’s richest man and a close Trump ally tried to reduce the president’s federal bureaucracy and replace his career government employees politically with loyal appointments. Has offered On Monday, Musk wrote on the X, which is a social media platform, that he and his employees “fed Yus Aid to a wooden cheeper at the weekend”. The statement was presented to the court as an example of the negligence of an agency developed by Congress law.
As the Guardian has reported, Musk has also promoted a campaign of misunderstanding about the agency’s expenses to stain its image, even a fraud of a fraud linked to Russian influence operations The report is also shared in which it was claimed, wrongly, Hollywood actors were paid more than $ 40 million. Visit Ukraine USAID’s website records used to eliminate Musk’s false claims that the United States intended to spend M 50M on a condom for Gaza, as well as with the agency’s entire web history It was removed.
According to legal action, not a single defendant’s move to abolish USAID was taken according to the Congress authority. “” And according to the federal law, Congress is the only institution that can legally abolish the agency. “
The agency’s website now says that by midnight on Friday, “direct renting personnel of all USAID will be kept on administrative departure globally, as well as the main tasks of the mission, the main leadership. And there will also be a discount of the designated personnel responsible for the specially designated programs. “
The Trump administration plans to keep more than 10,000 employees less than 10,000, sources told Reuters Thursday.
Thursday’s case said that “the devastating humanitarian results of the end of the agency have yielded the consequences, including the closure of efforts to fight malaria and HIV.” “Already, 300 children who do not have HIV now do. Thousands of girls and women will die from pregnancy and childbirth.
Consignment Power, Former USAd Administrator Debate In an opinion in the New York Times on Thursday, the loss of US dignity was an honor for its foreign opponents.
“I don’t wonder if the attack The joy is being celebrated Through Moscow and Beijing, “Power wrote.” They think that those who want to end the agency are desperate to hide from the American people: USAID has become a US superpower in this world. Explained by threats that cross the borders and between growing strategic competition. “
Trump’s foreign aid frozen and USAID’s closure has also disabled global efforts to relieve hunger, leaving tons of $ 340 million worth of food in Lumbo.
“We’re already looking at the cost of shutdown,” Atul Gonde, a surgeon, a surgeon who leads global health programs for USAID is written on x. “Drug abstinence children, who have been removed from the clinics, are not just dying-they are spreading the disease. People around the world [with] HIV, refusing their medicine, will soon start transferring the virus. The loss is global.
Gonde added that one of the experienced foreign services officers told him: “Our government is attacking us. This is worse than any dictatorship where I have worked.
The litigation alleges that the Congress was established as an independent agency in a 1998 law, which is beyond Trump’s authority under the constitution and to execute the country’s laws loyalty. Violates his duty.
It is looking for a temporary and eventually a permanent order from the court that restores USAID financing, reopening its offices, and preventing further orders to dissolve it.
