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Photos of the week ending February 7, 2025 - Roll Call

Confirmations of administration officials continued this week as Democrats pushed back on Elon Musk's efforts to make controversial cuts.

Roll Call · Feb 7, 2025

Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from gutting USAid – as it happened

Judge ruling in response to lawsuit filed by union for government workers; union lawyers call Trump’s efforts ‘violation of the separation of powers’. This blog is now closed.

The Guardian - US · Feb 7, 2025

Be clear about what Trump and Musk’s aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die

The decimation of USAid is already having a terrible effect in some of the poorest places on the planet. It damages America: it will harm us all, says Gordon Brown, the UN’s special envoy for global education

The Guardian - UK · Feb 7, 2025

House Democrats urge security investigations into Elon Musk’s team

‘No evidence’ DOGE team has ‘undergone the proper vetting to ensure the security of taxpayer and government data,’ Democrats say

The Independent UK · Feb 7, 2025

Trump’s gutting of USAID sends chill through Southeast Asia

NGOs across Southeast Asia say they will struggle to continue their work without US funding.

Al Jazeera · Feb 7, 2025

US cedes ground to China with ‘self-inflicted wound’ of USAid shutdown, analysts say

Sudden suspension of aid funding a ‘perfect opportunity’ for Beijing to fill the gap and grow its own soft power

The Guardian - UK · Feb 7, 2025

Judge Pauses Musk Plan For Mass Cull Of US Govt Workers

The federal judge in Massachusetts ordered a temporary injunction on the plan's deadline -- midnight Thursday -- given by Musk for the country's more than two million government employees. The offer was to quit with eight months' pay or risk being fired in future culls.

International Business Times · Feb 7, 2025

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

Lawsuit seeks order blocking ‘unconstitutional and illegal actions’ that have created ‘global humanitarian crisis’

The Guardian - US · Feb 7, 2025

USAID to shed 97% of workforce: report

Federal workers groups say moves to "systematically dismantle" the organization without Congress are illegal

Salon · Feb 7, 2025

Trump sued by USAID workers union for shutting down global aid agency: ‘Profound moral stain’

Trump administration’s actions already triggered a ‘global humanitarian crisis,’ lawsuit states

The Independent UK · Feb 7, 2025