Federal judge orders all USAID workers to be reinstated
YUMA, Ariz. (NBC, KYMA/KECY) - A federal judge is ordering all U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) systems to be reinstated.
Maryland Judge Theodore Chuang said, in his ruling Tuesday, dismantling of the agency likely violated the Constitution, and orders the Trump administration to restore email and computer access to all of the agency's employees, including those who were placed on administrative leave.
The lawsuit singled out Musk as a defendant covered by the preliminary injunction, arguing that he was wielding power the Constitution reserves only for those who win elections or are Senate confirmed.
The Tump administration has argued that he was merely acting as an advisor to the president.
In February, the Trump administration placed all but a fraction of USAID's worldwide staff on leave and notified at least 1,600 of its U.S.-based staffers they were being fired.
The effort to gut the six decade old aid agency was part of a broader push to eradicate the foreign aid agency and most of its humanitarian and development programs abroad.
