Unions Sue Trump Admin Over Dismantling Of USAID

Axios reports:

The Trump administration is being sued over its move to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with unions representing workers in the lawsuit calling the action “unconstitutional and illegal.”

The lawsuit that was filed in federal court Thursday seeks to block efforts to place most of USAID’s 10,000-strong global workforce on administrative leave by Friday night and restore currently frozen funding and operations.

The lawsuit that was filed in D.C. names as defendants President Trump, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was recently appointed as USAID’s acting administrator, alleging their actions have caused a humanitarian catastrophe.

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