Inter-American Foundation: Federal Judge blocks Donald Trump’s attempt to eliminate Inter-American Foundation

A US federal judge On Friday, US President Donald Trump blocked to disintegrate the move Latin America Development Agency, Inter-American foundation (IAF), deciding that the administration abolished its authority, when it removed the leadership of the agency and fought its grant.
US District Judge Loren AlkhanAn appointment by US President Joe Biden ordered the IAF president and CEO Sara Aviel Be immediately restored and blocked Trump administrationEfforts to dissolve the operation of the agency. According to the news agency Associated Press, Alakhan said, “Because neither President Trump nor Mr. Maroko had the right to set him on fire … Ms. Avel is likely to succeed on the merits of his case.”
Established by the Congress in 1969, IAF is an independent American agency that gives funds to the grassroots development efforts to combat poverty, migration and instability in Latin America and Caribbean. Since its inception, the agency has distributed over $ 945 million in grants in about three dozen countries.
Trump signed executive Order Targeting the federal government significantly on February 19, listing the IAF among the agencies “expired to the maximum limit to the maximum range”, the hill explained. The next day, the representative of the department Official efficiency (DOGE), led by Trump’s advisor Elon Musk, appeared in the offices of IAF.
A few days later, the administration removed the agency’s board, fired the avel, and Peter Maroko installed as the acting board chair. Maroko, who previously worked on abolishing the American agency for international development, later appointed himself as a temporary replacement of Aviel.
According to the hill, IAF was left with just one employee and an active grant.
Alikhan’s order invalidated Maroko’s role and actions, including a plan to cancel almost all IAF grants and set fire to most of its employees. “If those termination becomes effective, those employees will never return,” Avel’s lawyers warned, saying that the Foundation’s long -standing relationship and reputation would be “intestine”, “AP said,” Avel’s lawyers warned.
Nine grant organizations have also filed a lawsuit to preserve the agency, in which the group of school violence in Peru support rural women in Mexico, and train small -scale farmers. Many have already closed or closed employees.
The Department of Justice argued that Trump replaced the law and was part of the widespread efforts to ensure administration works. Government leadership Aligns with the goals of the President. But Judge Alikhan pushed a strong push. “This reading develops the section of the appointments,” he wrote, called the principle of administration uncontrolled executive power “frightening”, Hill said.