Trump's 'young, very smart type of person' remark used against administration in lawsuit
Source: Law & Crime
Mar 19th, 2026, 11:25 am
Dozens of fired USAID employees have sued in federal court, alleging the Trump administration's move to "eject older legacy" foreign aid agency workers and replace them with DOGE-approved "new, younger employees" was unlawful age discrimination.
Nearly 80 pages of the 124-page complaint filed in Washington, D.C., were dedicated to the naming the ousted foreign service plaintiffs, ranging in age from their 40s to 60s.
The suit was brought against the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the State Department, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was the acting administrator of USAID from February to August 2025, when Elon Musk took his chainsaw to an agency he called "criminal," declaring it was time "for it to die." Amy Gleason, the acting DOGE administrator now, was also sued.
According to the complaint, the Trump administration's teardown of USAID and discarding of "decades of institutional knowledge and expertise the Plaintiffs had amassed" was always framed by the defendants as a result of a need to do away with the "dinosaurs" and bring in "younger, more energetic, more tech-savvy" employees. That was the point of having an employee dubbed "Big Balls," 19, send them packing, the lawsuit alleged.
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Full headline: Trump's 'young, very smart type of person' remark used against administration in lawsuit as dozens of canned USAID workers claim 'direct' violations of law
Link to SUIT (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/27894737/adea-suit.pdf
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GO GET 'EM, wrongly-fired federal workers!!!
