The American Foreign Service Association, which represents foreign service officers, and the American Federation of Government Employees, a union for civil servants, sued the Trump administration late Thursday, arguing that the president could not unilaterally close down the agency.

President Donald Trump’s shutdown of the US Agency for International Development was challenged in court by unions representing federal employees, which say the freeze on foreign aid is causing a global humanitarian crisis and costing thousands of American jobs.

From USAID to the U.S. federal payment system, Musk is spearheading plans to audit and cut multiple government agencies

Trump campaigned on promises to cut aid to foreign countries.