{"id":36383,"date":"2025-03-18T21:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T21:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/musk-and-doges-usaid-shutdown-likely-violated-us-constitution-judge-rules\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T21:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T21:20:11","slug":"musk-and-doges-usaid-shutdown-likely-violated-us-constitution-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/musk-and-doges-usaid-shutdown-likely-violated-us-constitution-judge-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk and Doge\u2019s USAid shutdown likely violated US constitution, judge rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judge halts efforts to fire USAid workers, a major setback in administration\u2019s attempts to bulldoze federal government<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Never miss global breaking news. <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/1jb08op7\">Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> and the so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) likely violated the US constitution by shutting down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/usaid\">USAid<\/a>, ordering the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> to reverse some of the actions it took to dismantle the agency.<\/p>\n<p>The decision by US district judge Theodore Chuang was sweeping in its scope and marked a major setback for the administration\u2019s signature takedown in its effort to bulldoze through the federal government.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/18\/elon-musk-doge-usaid-shutdown-ruling\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge halts efforts to fire USAid workers, a major setback in administration\u2019s attempts to bulldoze federal government Never miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time. A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that Elon Musk and the so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) likely violated the &#8230; <a title=\"Musk and Doge\u2019s USAid shutdown likely violated US constitution, judge rules\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/musk-and-doges-usaid-shutdown-likely-violated-us-constitution-judge-rules\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Musk and Doge\u2019s USAid shutdown likely violated US constitution, judge rules\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}