A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore the U.S. Agency for International Development’s functionality Tuesday, at least as litigation moves forward, ruling that billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency’s broad steps to dismantle the foreign aid agency “likely violated the United States Constitution in multiple ways.”
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Maryland-based Judge Theodore D. Chuang issued an injunction Tuesday in response to a lawsuit brought by former USAID employees and contractors, who argued Musk’s takeover of USAID—whose functions the Trump administration has largely shut down—was unconstitutional, claiming Musk’s does not have the lawful authority needed to “slash and burn” the federal agency.
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