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Eliminating US unique response capacity of crisis experts who help contain disease outbreaks, stabilise displaced populations – a shortsighted, high risk and frankly, stupid act,
Marcia Wong, a former deputy assistant administrator for USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, wrote on the social media platform X
For overseas personnel, USAID intends a voluntary, Agency-funded return travel program and other benefits,
USAID’s website said in its noticeIndividuals that are impacted will receive specific notifications on February 23, 2025, with further instructions and information about their benefits and rights,
a notice from the Trump administration said the next day
The president has substantial discretion to suspend refugee admissions. But that authority is not limitless,
said Judge Jamal Whitehead in his decision
He can not ignore Congress' detailed framework for refugee admissions and the limits it places on the president's ability to suspend the same,
Whitehead saidDefendants either wanted to pause up to $3 trillion in federal spending practically overnight, or they expected each federal agency to review every single one of its grants, loans, and funds for compliance in less than twenty-four hours,
Alikhan wroteIn the simplest terms, the freeze was ill-conceived from the beginning,
wrote Judge Loren Alikhan in an opinion issued in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.That, again, is the very action that was held to be likely arbitrary and capricious,
Ali said
I want those documents by noon tomorrow,
the judge saidI guess I’m not understanding where there is any confusion here,
the judge saidI’m not in a position to answer that,
Sur said
The defendant agencies’ implementation of the order likely violates bedrock principles of administrative law by vastly expanding the scope of the order with no reasoned explanation [and] no advance notice,
the judge said