The move comes as the Trump administration has sought to suspend funding to NGOs.
In a suit filed on Feb. 18 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) said that 6,700 admitted refugees were assigned to a program for refugee resettlement when the Trump administration ended its funding in January and that the move could jeopardize those efforts. The bishops group also said the pause in funding means that it is now on the hook for millions in costs incurred, violating federal laws.
“As a direct result of the suspension, USCCB has millions of dollars in pending, unpaid reimbursements for services already rendered to refugees and is accruing millions more each week—with no indication that any future reimbursements will be paid or that the program will ever resume,” the lawsuit stated, adding it “has already been forced to initiate layoffs for fifty employees.”
Named in the lawsuit were both Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Department of Health and Human…
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