Trump administration owes US business millions in unpaid bills amid USAID shutdown, lawsuit says
- The Trump administration's actions have resulted in American businesses being owed hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid bills for completed work, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday.
- The lawsuit states that the administration's freeze on foreign aid has caused mass layoffs, including 750 furloughs at Chemonics International.
- Chemonics is seeking $103 million in unpaid invoices and reports that nearly $500 million in USAID-ordered goods are stuck in the supply chain.
- The delayed delivery of health commodities could lead to as many as 566,000 deaths from diseases, including 215,000 pediatric deaths, as stated in the lawsuit.
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The dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) by President Donald Trump's government has affected several U.S. companies with hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid bills for jobs that have already been performed, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday.
Lawsuit: Administration owes businesses millions
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration's dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development is stiffing American businesses on hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid bills for work that was already done, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
Trump Gutting of USAID Moves on to Killing Its Contracts
(Photo by Pete Kiehart for The Washington Post via Getty Images)THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BEGAN terminating hundreds of the United States Agency for International Development’s contracts and awards on Tuesday, according to internal documents reviewed by The Bulwark and multiple people familiar with the process.The exact number of awards and contracts terminated—and what functions they covered—was not known. But one of the people familiar with the…
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