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The Guardian - US
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Robert Mackey and agencies

Government workers sue Trump and Rubio over ‘catastrophic’ USAid cuts

Man stands in front of Dominican flag
Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, at a press conference in the Dominican Republic on Thursday. Photograph: Orlando Barría/EPA

The largest US government workers’ union and an association of foreign service workers sued the Trump administration on Thursday in an effort to reverse its aggressive dismantling of the US Agency for International Development.

The lawsuit, filed in Washington, DC federal court by the American Federation of Government Employees and the American Foreign Service Association, seeks an order blocking what it says are “unconstitutional and illegal actions” that have created a “global humanitarian crisis”.

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