Nearly all of USAID’s global workforce will be laid off, multiple outlets reported Thursday, a move that comes as President Donald Trump and several members of his administration have discussed restructuring or abolishing parts of the foreign aid agency—drawing a lawsuit calling the moves “unconstitutional and illegal.”

The tally appears to be about several thousand private-sector jobs lost in the past two weeks since federal funding cuts and freezes took hold.

The largest U.S. government worker union and an association of foreign service workers sued the Trump administration on Thursday in an effort to reverse its aggressive dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

The American Federation of Government Employees has initiated legal proceedings against the Trump administration over extensive layoffs at USAID. The lawsuit has been submitted to a federal court in Washington.

The Trump administration is being sued over its move to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with unions representing workers in the lawsuit calling the action "unconstitutional and illegal.

The American Federation of Government Employees has sued the Trump administration over mass layoffs at USAID. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Washington. The American Federation of Government Employees has filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump's administration in federal court in Washington due to mass layoffs at the United States Agency