The Union, representing US government employees, sued the Trump administration on its efforts to destroy the International Development (USAID) late on Thursday night.
The USAID website said, “All USAID Direct Higher personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of missions responsible for important tasks, core leadership and specialized designed programs.”
Several news outlets reported that the Trump administration had planned to cut most of its global workforce that the wood leaves less than 300 employees.
The agency in charge of running a life -saving program around the world has around 10,000 contractors and is directly rental worldwide.
How big do we get?
In 2023, USAID distributed $ 71.9 billion (€ 69.24 billion) in foreign aid and was Ukraine, the top recipients, followed by Ethiopia, Jordan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Yemen and Afghanistan according to a Congress report.
The agency spent in FY 2023 works up to 1.2% of the total federal outline of that year, which was more than $ 6.1 trillion.
What does the case say?
The lawsuit was filed in the Washington DC Federal Court by the American Federation of Government Employees and the American Foreign Service Association.
The Sangh seeks an order, which states that “unconstitutional and illegal action”, which has created a global humanitarian crisis. “
The case alleged that dissolving the USA, which was established as an independent agency in the 1998 law passed by the Congress, is beyond the right of Trump under the Constitution and to execute the nation’s law honestly. For violation of his duty for it.
Why is there USAID in the news?
US President Donald Trump signed an order to break any new US foreign development aid for three months in the office for three months, but the specifics of that order have not been defined.
Elon Musk’s Government Efficiency Department (DOGE) worked with a recommendation to cut federal budget, attacking the aid agency over the weekend.
Since then, the agency website has been closed with only a simple message Its homepage Saying that “all direct rent personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally.”
Meanwhile, hundreds of contractors have closed the bee and more than a thousand employees have dropped the bee out of their accounts with notice.
Edited by: John Silk