Judge blocks Trump administration from placing 2,200 USAID employees on leave
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Washington — A federal judge said Friday that he will prevent the Trump administration from placing 2,200 employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, on administrative leave, siding with unions representing the employees for now.
Judge Carl Nichols of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, who President Trump named to the bench in 2019, said in court that he would approve a limited temporary restraining order that would block the employees from being put on administrative leave, a move that was scheduled for midnight tonight. He also said he would decide whether the 500 workers who are already on leave would be reinstated. Details on the pause would be set in a forthcoming filing, he said.
He said the unions — American Foreign Service Association and American Federation of Government Employees — established they would suffer "irreparable harm" without a pause, while the government did not. "Frankly, there is zero harm to the government" in a short-term pause, Nichols said from the bench.
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