Trump Hit With New Suit Asserting ‘Unlawful’ Shuttering of USAID

Feb. 11, 2025, 2:49 PM UTC

A coalition of the world’s largest voluntary lawyers’ associations, global health, and international business groups sued the Trump administration Tuesday over the shuttering of USAID, which it called “an unlawful and unconstitutional exercise of executive power.”

The US District Court for the District of Columbia must stop gutting the US Agency for International Development, a move that has irreparably harmed the plaintiffs, grantees, and contractors who’ve been forced to shut down programs and let employees go amid the freeze on foreign assistance, the complaint said.

The suit is the latest filed against President Donald Trump and federal officials in ...

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