Elon Musk’s attempts to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development through his so-called Department of Government Efficiency “likely violated the Constitution in multiple ways,” according to a federal judge’s ruling.
District Judge Theodore Chuang in Washington, D.C. granted a preliminary injunction that temporarily blocks DOGE from access to any USAID systems and from doing “any work” related to shutting down the agency.
Tuesday’s order follows a lawsuit from a group of recently fired USAID workers and contractors who argued that the world’s wealthiest man – who promised to put the global aid agency in a “wood chipper” — was wielding unconstitutional authority under President Donald Trump to dismantle entire federal agencies and gut the federal workforce.
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