A federal judge on Friday temporarily paused the Trump Admin from placing USAID workers on leave.
Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee said he will halt a midnight deadline for USAID to be reduced to couple hundred workers.
According to NBC News, the judge will enter a “very limited” temporary restraining order before the midnight deadline.
President Trump planned to drastically reduce the USAID workforce to a few hundred workers.
Thousand of workers were to be placed on administrative leave.
BREAKING: Judge NICHOLS says he will be entering a “very limited” restraining order aimed at protecting the 2,200 USAID employees being placed on leave tonight. https://t.co/40lp37wE0d
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February 7, 2025
CNBC reported:
A federal judge on Friday said he will pause a midnight deadline for the U.S. Agency for International Development to be stripped down to a few hundred workers from a workforce of more than 5,000.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols made the announcement from the bench after a hearing at a federal courthouse in Washington D.C.
The American Foreign Service Association, a union representing 1,800 foreign service officers working for USAID, and the American Federation of Government Employees sued the Trump administration Thursday after the administration said earlier this week that thousands of USAID employees would be placed on administrative leave starting at 11:59 p.m. Friday as part of a broad maneuver by President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to start reshaping the federal government.
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