Posted on 02/06/2025 5:55:26 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The largest U.S. government workers' union and an association of foreign service workers sued the Trump administration on Thursday in an effort to reverse its aggressive dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The lawsuit, filed in Washington, D.C. federal court by the American Federation of Government Employees and the American Foreign Service Association, seeks an order blocking what it says are "unconstitutional and illegal actions" that have created a "global humanitarian crisis."
Those actions include President Donald Trump's order on January 20, the day he was inaugurated, pausing all U.S. foreign aid. That was followed by orders from the State Department halting USAID projects around the world, agency computer systems going offline and staff abruptly laid off or placed on leave.
The lawsuit names Trump and the State and Treasury Departments as defendants. The White House and the departments did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The gutting of the agency has largely been overseen by businessman Elon Musk, the world's richest man and a close Trump ally spearheading the president's effort to shrink the federal bureaucracy. On Monday, Musk wrote on X, the social media platform he owns, that he and his employees "spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper."
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The left is going to slow-roll Trump for as long as they can in the courts, who have shown themselves to generally be no friends of conservatives or even middle America.
They’re going to sue President Trump for doing his constitutional duty? Good luck with that.
I think there is a mechanism for dealing with a president who is functioning lawlessly, and it isn’t unelected bureaucrats demanding he acquiesce to their control.
Lack of standing.
maybe send a message with a government claw back of badly spend funds from the individuals that USED to work at a now defunct agency. retroactive pay cuts, while not entirely legal WILL tie the little whiners up in court for a timevwhikevthe rest of us LAUGH AT THEM.
They are too late. I just read where Trump has fired 14,000 of them.
Deep state gonna deep state
Into the DC District of Uniparty Stooge Court...
Constitution clearly allows the executive branch control over executive agencies.
Note they’ve never sued over the president ballooning the payroll of govt agencies.
Would that been like the crisis Hurricane Helene and flood victims in Red States experienced four months ago (just in time to affect the presidential election), as Mayorkas said all the money that could have otherwise been spent to help them had already been expended on paying for housing, feeding and paying the illegals' cell phone bills?
Are several Gazans having to pay for their own condoms in the the day since their funding was cut?
Did the schedule for Drag Queen play in Argentine slip a day?
They need to be sued right back and aggressively so.
Its ironic that illegal lawfare is all these lawless vile reprobates understand
“No standing.”
I can dream, can’t I?
Trump is the Chief Executive Officer. What part of Chief don’t they understand?
Sue-them-back.
Well, maybe the crybabies should have taken the 8 month no-work but get paid resignations.
Billionaires see their share of litigation. I think they just
laugh at the absurdity after a while..
Assuming they can stop their firing, Trump should use this interval to enact new and very stringent security procedures.
Then if those workers return to work they would have to meet the updated security clearances.
Then Trump can slow roll their clearances, preventing them from working.
LOL! That’s hopeless. The government can cut a program or cut spending anytime it likes.
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