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A Federal Court of Appeals granted on Friday the Trump administration Motion to extend a stay that allows the Government Efficiency Department (Doge) to continue operating in the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Last week, a federal judge in Maryland ruled efforts to stop the functions of USAID They were probably unconstitutionalordering your reinstatement.
A Federal Court of Appeals in Richmond, VirginiaOn Tuesday, he issued a stay, temporarily blocking the order of the judge that prohibited Dun to work with Usaid. He also prohibited the biopharmaceutical executive Jeremy Levin from leading the agency.
Friday’s decision extends the stay until the appeal is resolved.
Doge protesters outside the Department of Education in Washington, DC, March 11, 2025. (Peter Pinedo/Fox News Digital)
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A group of 26 current and previously identified employees or contractors from Usaid alleged that the Trump administration illegally canceled government contracts, placed Usaid staff on administrative license, reduced the strength of employees and contractors, closed the headquarters and demolished the website, violating the appointments clause of the United States Constitution because ELON ALMIZCLE He acted as Dux administrator without being appropriate properly.
They also claimed to dismantle USAID infringed Congress responsibilitiesAccording to judicial documents.
The Trump administration fought against the claims, claiming that Musk acts as the main advisor of the president, and the actions in Usaid were carried out by Secretary of State Marco Rubio As an interim administrator of USAID, who later appointed Peter Marocco as an administrator.
Usaid later, and according to the president Donald Trump’s Executive order, established an internal Doge team led by Lewin, according to judicial documents.
An American flag and a USAID flag flies outside the USAID building in Washington, DC (Reuters/Annabelle Gordon)
Actions that employees and contractors alleged were unconstitutional to the agency’s discretion and the president’s authority to direct foreign policy, the administration argued.
The District Court granted employees and contractors requested by preliminary judicial order, blocking Dute to operate in Usaid, finding that the administration “probably” violated the Constitution, and the pause was of public interest.
He later clarified to Lewin, who led the USAID Doge team before the court order, could no longer do his job as USAID operations director and refused to grant any modification.
The former USAID employees leave the headquarters in Washington, DC (Leigh Green for Fox News Digital)
The Trump administration appealed the preliminary mandate of the District Court and the denial of its motion of clarification or modification. He also presented an emergency motion to suspend the court order waiting for the appeal.
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The judges of the Circuit of the United States Court of United States Arthur Marvin Quattlebaum Jr. and Judge Paul V. Niemeyer found on Friday that Musk and Dogs “made a great demonstration that they are likely to succeed in the merits of the appeal, which will be irreparably injured in the absence of the stay,” according to judicial documents.
In addition, Quattlebaum and Niemeyer discovered that the stay “favors public interest.”
The ruling marked the third temporal victory on Friday for the Trump administration at the federal level of appeals.
