Trump says administration will appeal USAID ruling

President Donald Trump says his administration will appeal a judge's decision this week to block any Department of Government Efficiency employees from taking any action related to USAID unless given express permission by agency staff.

“We will be appealing it," Trump said Tuesday evening on the Fox News Channel. "We have rogue judges that are destroying this country.”

U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang earlier in the day said DOGE head Elon Musk’s actions may have run afoul of the Constitution’s Appointments Clause because he is serving as the DOGE administrator but has not been confirmed by the Senate.

The agency is attempting to shutter DOGE as part of its larger agenda of shrinking the federal government. 

Trump said the judge should have been more critical of how USAID money was being spent, according to the Yahoo news outlet.

“In many cases they’re just grandstanders,” Trump said, referring to Judge Chuang. “You know what he should do: look at where the money went.”

He also called USAID a "whole, big scam."