The Trump-appointed Judge Carl Nichols issued a temporary restraining order on Friday, pausing President Donald Trump’s gutting of USAID, an agency Trump said is rife with fraud, waste, and corruption.
USAID, which effectively has been shuttered as part of a government cleanup campaign by the Musk-backed Department of Government Efficiency commission, ascended to headline scrutiny in the past few weeks as Democrats, such as Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., bemoan that their “dollars” are being taken away.
Lauren Bateman, an attorney at Public Citizen Litigation Group, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of the unions alongside Democracy Forward, told reporters Thursday, according to The Hill, that “The administration’s sudden dismantlement of USAID, an agency that has been performing life-saving work around the world, without any notice to its thousands of employees or to the people that it serves is a profound moral stain.”
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