On Friday, a federal judge in San Francisco prevented Foreign Minister Marco Rubio from being sued with plans to reduce the Department of Foreign Affairs, and said that it was the forbidden behavior at an injunction that she had given last month.
The US district judge Susan Illston banned the Republican administration of carrying out a gigantic part of her plans for restructuring and slash departments, while she hears a legal challenge brought by unions and other people. She said President Donald Trump failed to apply for cooperation with the congress to do this when he ordered state cuts.
At the end of May, however, the Foreign Ministry informed the Congress about an updated restructuring of the agency, which would do programs and staff even deeper than previously known.
This week, Rubio also instructed US messages to relieve all remaining employees of the US agency for international development. He said that the Foreign Ministry would take over the foreign aid programs from USAID by Monday.
The Trump government said Rubio had launched a restructuring of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regardless of the President’s directive and was therefore freed.
Illston, who was nominated by the Democrat from former President Bill Clinton on the banking, was not convinced.
“If the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has the question of whether the planned measures fall in the context of the court’s interim decision, the court orders the department to ask these questions with the court before they took measures,” she wrote in a order placed on Friday.
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