Donald Trump’s administration will go to court on Wednesday to reduce the US Agency for International Development (USA) one day after the White House had released the general inspector for the agency.
Paul Martin, the general inspector, whose dismissal was reported for the first time by CNN, it is impossible to monitor 8.2 billion US dollars in non -issued humanitarian funds.
General inspectors are usually independently financed wax dogs that are connected and commissioned to government agencies to align waste, fraud and abuse. Martin is at least the 18th general inspector, which has already been released by the Trump government – several joined a lawsuit on Wednesday
According to Chememonics International in Washington, who sued the government on Tuesday, the abrupt foreign Aid Freeze also forces the administration’s layoffs of the US suppliers and contractors for USA. An organization that represents 170 small US companies and the American Bar Association were among the groups that had joined this legal challenge.
For Chemonics, one of the larger USAID partners, the financing freze means $ 103 million of unpaid bills and almost $ 500 million in medication, food and other goods or ports ordered by USAID, the lawsuit.
The non -care of the health goods “could possibly lead to 566,000 deaths by HIV/AIDS, malaria and non -fulfilled needs of reproductive health, including 215,000 pediatric deaths,” the lawsuit said.
Musk defends the approach
Trump’s most powerful consultant, the billionaire Elon Musk, rarely appeared in the White House in the White House on Tuesday to defend the fast and extensive cuts that he urges and recognized through the federal government that there has been mistakes and will be more.
USAID was an early goal of the Musk Department of Government Efficiency, which despite its title is not a full-fledged federal department. The Democrats have argued that Musk with several companies that are exposed to regulation are exposed to conflicts of interest and that his team has not received any security checks, even since it apparently accessed data from the Ministry of Finance.
Musk said the government does not get “for money” with USAID programs and initiatives. He accused USAID of influencing foreign elections that were doubtful, without evidence of evidence of his claim.
He also claimed that Doges work on his website and on X of the social media platform was shared by Musk. However, the Doge website does not contain any information, and the posts on X are often missing many details, including the programs and the extent of the organization.
In response to a question of false statements, the United States issued $ 50 million for Gaza condoms, Musk admitted that some of the claims he made about government programs was wrong.
“Some of the things I say are wrong and should be corrected. So nobody can beat 1,000,” he said.
Trump called USAID “corrupt” and “incompetent”. On Tuesday, he signed an executive order in which he cited the federal authorities, “coordinated” and advise himself with Dogen to reduce jobs and to limit the attitude, as can be seen from a summary of the White House.
“The people voted for a great government reform. Disu should give no doubt,” said Musk. “That was on the campaign, the President spoke about it at every rally.”
The government accused employees of “insubordination” in court
The American Foreign Service Association and the American Federation of Government argue in another complaint that Trump lacks the authority to close the agency without the consent of the congress.
The US district judge Carl Nichols, appointed in Trump, will hear on both these two federal workers’ groups and the administration on Wednesday.
US President Donald Trump’s rash of executive regulations since taking office has led to 40 lawsuits, including one who successfully applied for an emergency commands to block access to social security numbers. Trump and his Vice President say that the move is illegal and they can ignore the arrangement.
The groups complain that the spread of the USA by the administration for the thousands of workers and for people around the world, which are cut off clean water, life -saving medical care, training, training and much more, was unnecessarily cruel.
“This is a comprehensive equipment of practically all employees of an entire agency,” said Karla Gilbride, lawyer of the employee associations, the judge last week.
Nichols agreed last week to block an order that caused the thousands of USID workers overseas, which were transferred to administrative leave for 30 days to return to the USA at the government’s expense. He cited explanations of employees of the agency who had no home after decades abroad in the United States who were confronted with special needs with special needs from school and other difficulties.
In an affidavit before the hearing on Wednesday, Pete Marocco, a returning USID policy representative from Trump’s first term, presents a description of agency workers review.
In view of unimposed audit of the operations and programs of USAID, ”explains Marocco.
The U.S.ID employees deny insubordination and describe the accusation as an excuse to destroy the agency, which is more than 60 years old.
“It’s too easy to slander us”
Douglas Holtz-Ekin, a former Republican director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), said Reuters that the agencies Musk and Trump have so far made a tiny fraction of the entire federal budget, which is expected to reach $ 7 trillion in this budget, loudly CBO.
“You will not go down in agencies that do things they like. They go to agencies that they do not agree with,” said Holtz-Ekin.
Now that USAID was as good as dead, US President Donald Trump says that the government’s efficiency will take over the government of the federal government, Czar Elon Musk, the Federal Expenses for Education and even the Pentagon, the billions in contracts with SpaceX in muscle Has property.
Hundreds of people gathered on Tuesday on the other side of the street from the US Capitol to support federal workers.
Janet Connelly, a graphic designer of the Ministry of Energy, said she was fed up with encouraging e -mails from the Office of Personnel Management, encouraging people to take the resigned withdrawal program.
Connelly said she sees her work as an attempts to serve the American public.
“It’s too easy to slander us,” she said.
