The president and CEO of a congressionally created independent U.S. agency, subjected to dismantling by the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and President Donald Trump , was unlawfully sent packing based on a nonexistent "loophole" that "makes no sense," a federal judge ruled Thursday.

Sara Aviel had for roughly three years headed the Inter-American Foundation (IAF), a grantor which exists by statute to invest in and promote democratic development "across Latin America and the Caribbean." However, one month after Trump's second inauguration, POTUS and DOGE took aim at the agency and many others like it.

In February, Trump issued Executive Order 14217 with the express purpose that "unnecessary" federal bureaucracy "be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applica

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