DOGE Loses In Court: Elon Musk’s USAID Shutdown Is Likely Unconstitutional, Judge Rules

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore the U.S. Agency for International Development’s functionality Tuesday, at least as litigation moves forward, ruling that billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency’s broad steps to dismantle the foreign aid agency “likely violated the United States Constitution in multiple ways.”

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