Late yesterday, Public Citizen sued Donald Trump for shutting down the U.S.
Agency for International Development (USAID).

By dissolving USAID — in clear disregard for the law and the Constitution —
Trump has touched off a global humanitarian catastrophe.

* Originally established by Congress in 1961 — when John F. Kennedy was
president — USAID is a vital humanitarian organization that provides
life-saving food, medicine, and support to much of the rest of the world.

* But Trump has illegally ordered USAID workers to stop doing their jobs,
frozen the agency’s funding, and prepared to lay off or fire nearly all
employees.

* With USAID in disarray, medical clinics, soup kitchens, refugee assistance
programs, and countless other critical projects across the globe cannot
operate.

* This is a humanitarian nightmare of Donald Trump’s and Elon Musk’s making in
service of ideologically bizarre interests.

This past Monday, Elon Musk bragged that he had spent the weekend “feeding USAID
into the wood chipper.”

The Constitution is clear — Congress created USAID and only Congress can
dismantle it. Not MAGA sycophant and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Not
President Donald Trump. And definitely not the unelected Elon Musk.

Public Citizen is representing the American Foreign Service Association and
American Federation of Government Employees in this case, with co-counsel at
Democracy Forward.

Our lawsuit seeks a permanent injunction barring Trump, and State Department or
Treasury Department officials, from taking any action to dissolve USAID absent
congressional authorization. We are also seeking a temporary restraining order —
mandating a reversal of the Trump regime’s unlawful actions and a halt to any
further steps to dissolve USAID — until the court has resolved our suit.

By the way, we have now filed five lawsuits against the Trump regime (and there
are more to come). Here are the other four:

1. We’ve told you about the suit we filed, within moments of Trump being sworn
in, challenging the secrecy and structure of the so-called Department of
Government Efficiency that is being run by Elon Musk.

2. We also sued over the removal from publicly accessible government websites of
a broad range of health-related data and other information used by health
professionals to diagnose and treat patients.

3. We’ve been emailing you about the suit we filed earlier this week to block
the illegal invasion of privacy being carried out by “DOGE” at the U.S. Treasury
Department.

4. And, just this morning, we filed a lawsuit to block “DOGE” from improperly
accessing private information at the Department of Education.

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