Washington (AP) – Trump administration will present an unforgiving argument for disassemble the US agency for international development To a federal judge on Wednesday: USAID is full of “insubordination” and must be closed by the administration deciding which parts of the person to save.

The argument, which was made in an issue of politically appointed and vice USAID administrator Pete Marocco, comes as The administration confronts a lawsuit application of two groups representing federal employees.

USAID -employees deny insubordination and call the accusation a committee to break up the more than 60-year-old agencyone of the world’s largest donors of Humanitarian and development support.

Accounts from USAID employees submitted Tuesday in support of the mood revealed new details about the agency’s destruction.

It includes a statement from a USID staff describing a specific leader in billionaire Elon Musk’s department for the government’s efficiency team that is alleged to lead USAID employees on Monday in immediate dismissal of approximately 200 USAID programs without proper condition or process.

US district judge Carl Nichols, a named President Donald Trump, left the administration a setback on Friday in his disassembly of the agency, which temporarily stopped plans for pull all except a fraction of the USAID employees outside of work all over the world.

Nichols will hear arguments Wednesday at a request from the employees’ groups to continue blocking the move to put thousands of employees on leave and broaden his order. They claim that the government has already violated the judge’s order, which also reintroduced USAID employees who have already been left on leave but rejected to cancel The freezing of the administration of foreign assistance.

Trump and Musk’s cost -saving doge have met USAID particularly hard when they look to shrink the size of the federal government, accusing their work of being wasteful And in line with Trump’s agenda.

In the case, a government movement shows the administration that pushes arguments from Vice President JD Vance and others question whether courts have authority to control Trump’s power.

“The president’s powers in foreign issues are generally huge and incomprehensible,” government lawyers claimed.

USAID employees and supporters call the aid agency’s humanitarian and development work abroad that is necessary for national security.

They claim that every step in the division of administration of USAID has been unnecessarily cruel to its thousands of workers and devastating for people around the world which is suspended from clean water, life -saving medical care, education, education and more since Trump signed an executive order on January 20 freezing foreign assistance.

“This is a full -scale wear of practically all staff in an entire agency,” Karla Gilbride, lawyer for employees, told the judge last week.

The American Foreign Service Association and the American Federation of Government employees claim that Trump lacks the authority to turn off the agency without approval from Congress. Democratic legislators have made the same argument.

In an issuance before Wednesday’s hearing, Marycco, a returning USAID, presents from Trump’s first mandate, without evidence a description of agency workers who stop and resists the administration’s order to suddenly cancel funding for programs all over the world and expose each one to a rigorous review .

In light of “fraud”, “deviation” and “insubordination”, USAID’s new leaders “in the end decided that the placement of a significant number of USAID staff on paid administrative leave was the only way to … implement the break and implement a full and Unrestrained review of USAID’s operations and programs, ”Marycco stated.

Staff deny to withstand the freezing freezing. They claim that the interruption of money and resulting collapse of US-funded programs abroad, the suspension of the agency’s website and lockout of employees from systems made it impossible for these reviews to take place.

Nichols also agreed last week to block an order that gave thousands of foreign USAID workers placed on administrative leave 30 days to move back to the United States at the government’s expense.

Both movements would have exposed the workers and their spouses and children to unjustified risks and costs, says the judge.

Nichols pointed to accounts that the Trump administration had canceled some workers from the government’s e -mail and emergency warning systems they needed for their security.

“Administrative leave in Syria is not the same as administrative leave in Bethesda,” the judge said last week, referring to Washington, DC, the suburb.

Nichol’s quoted statements from agency employees who had no home to go to in the United States after decades abroad, who met to draw children with special needs from the school center and other difficulties.

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