An employee removes the US Agency for International Development Tag on February 7, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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A federal judge said on Friday that he would temporarily pause the Trump administration’s plan to place thousands of employees for the international development of administrative vacation at the US agency.
About 2,200 USAID employees were put on vacation on Friday evening at 11:59 p.m. Donald TrumpThe efforts to close the independent government agency.
Five hundred USAID workers are already on administrative leave, said a lawyer of the US Ministry of Justice.
Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump representative, declined the decision after he belonged to the Trump government and two groups, the federal workers before the US district court in Washington, DC,
The workers’ groups, the American Foreign Service Association and the American Federation of Government employees, had asked Nichols to “immediately set the actions to the Trump government to close the operations from USAID”.
They had argued that a court had submitted on Friday on Friday that USAID “suffered a rush of unconstitutional and illegal attacks and reduced its workers, contractors, scholarship holders and beneficiaries in the ruins and a global humanitarian crisis.”
The Trump administration “deliberately dismantled the U.S.ID infrastructure” and “ready for a killing of killing near Denens”, they wrote.
Nichols said on Friday afternoon that he would enter a “very limited” temporary decision to the 2,200 endangered USAID workers before midnight.
The judge said he had to decide whether his judgment will receive the order of the Trump government for the 500 employees you have already received.
During the hearing, Nichols Doj lawyer Brett Shumate questioned why the Trump government had to place 2,200 USAID workers on vacation so quickly.
“What is the urgency of it?” Asked the judge.
“The President decided that there is corruption and fraud in USAID,” replied Shumate.
USAID was founded in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy after the Foreign Assistance Act. It manages foreign help and carries out a variety of other field missions all over the world.
According to A, foreign help in recent years has made about 1% of the federal budget and less than 0.33% of GDP Brookings institution Report from September.
But USAID is still a main goal of Trump and has become Elon Muschusthat accused the agency of being an inexplicable magnet for fraud and corruption.
“Corruption is on the levels that you have rarely seen so far. Complete it!” Trump wrote On Friday morning on truth social.
Musk, which undertakes a comprehensive effort to reduce the size of the government by the so -called Ministry of State Efficiency or Doge of the White House, has recognized the mining of the USA.
“We spent the weekend in feeding USAID in the wooden hacker,” wrote Musk on his social media platform X.
