Trump and Rubio sued by government workers over ‘catastrophic’ USAid cuts | Trump administration
He held the largest US government workers’ union and a association for foreign service workers Trump administration On Thursday, in an attempt to reflect its aggressive dismantling of the US Agency for International Development.
The lawsuit, which was filed in Washington, the Federal Court of the capital by the American Federation of Government Employees and the American Foreign Service Association, is seeking to prohibit what it says is “unconstitutional and illegal measures” that created “a global humanitarian crisis.”
President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Beesen from among the victorious defendants, but The text of the lawsuit It focuses extensively on procedures, data on social media, by Elon Musk and the “Ministry of Governmental efficiency” initiative.
The prosecutors said: “The human consequences of the actions of the defendants were already disastrous.” “The American Agency for International Development provides the savior of life and medicine and the support of hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Without the agency’s partners to carry out this task, the US -led medical clinics, soup kitchens, refugee assistance programs, and countless programs have stopped About an immediate stop. “
Among the illegal procedures is Trump on January 20, on the day it was opened, stopping all US foreign aid. This was followed by orders from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to stop the US Agency for International Development projects worldwide, the agency’s computer systems reach non -communication and employees suddenly or put them on vacation.
The White House and departments immediately did not respond to the suspension requests.
Musk has been largely supervised by the agency, the richest man in the world and Trump’s ally closely leading the president’s efforts to reduce the federal bureaucracy and replace the civilian employees with the politically loyal assistant. On Monday, Musk wrote on X, the social media platform he owns, and that he and his employees “spent the weekend in feeding the US International Development Agency in wooden pieces.” This statement was submitted to the court as an example of the reckless destruction of a agency established by the Congress Law.
As said the Guardian, Musk also promoted a campaign of wrong information about the agency’s spending to distort its image, even Share the trick news report The Russian influence process, which falsely claimed, has been paid more than $ 40 million to Hollywood representatives to visit Ukraine. Records were removed from the US Agency for International Development website to expose the wrong Musk claim that the United States planned to spend $ 50 million on the condom of Gaza with almost the entire web history of the agency.
The lawsuit said: “No one of the defendants’ actions have been taken to dismantle the United States Agency for International Development under Congress license. ” “According to the federal statute, Congress is the only entity that may legalize the agency legally.”
The agency’s website now states that from midnight on Friday, “all direct employment employees will be placed at the United States Agency for International Development on an administrative vacation worldwide, with the exception of the appointed employees responsible for the positions of critical of the task, basic leadership and special programs in particular.”
The Trump administration plans to maintain less than 300 employees, out of more than 10,000.
“The agency’s collapse was catastrophic human consequences,” said a lawsuit on Thursday, including the closure of efforts to combat malaria and HIV. “Indeed, 300 children had no HIV, do now. Thousands of girls and women will die of pregnancy and childbirth.”
Samantha Power, a former US Agency for International Development Argue In an opinion article in the New York Times on Thursday, the damage to the American prestige was a blessing for its foreign opponents.
“I am not surprised that the attacks They drag him Written by Power, “by Moscow and Beijing”. “They understand what they seek to dismantle the agency desperate to hide from the American people: The American Agency for International Development has become the great power in America in a world determined by threats that intersect the borders and amid the increasing strategic competition.”
The freezing of Trump’s foreign aid and the closure of the United States Agency for International Development has paralyzed global efforts to relieve hunger, leaving a lot of food worth $ 340 million in forgetting.
“We already see the cost of closure,” Atoul Jandi, the surgeon who led the World Health Agency for International Development Books on x. “Children with drug-resistant tuberculosis, who have moved away from clinics, not only die-they spread the disease. People around the world [with] HIV, denied their medicine, will soon begin to transmit the virus. Global damage. “
Gwandi added that one of the veteran external service employees told him: “Our government is attacking us. This is worse than any dictatorship where I worked.”
The lawsuit claims that the dissolution of the American Agency for International Development, which was established as an independent agency in the 1998 law approved by Congress, goes beyond Trump’s authority under the constitution and violates his duty to execute the laws of the nation honestly.
It seeks a temporary and permanent matter in the end of the court that recovers the US Agency for International Development, reopens its offices and prohibits more requests to solve them.
