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Federal Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Putting More Than 2,000 USAID Workers On Leave

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A federal judge said Friday he will temporarily bar the U.S. Agency for International Development from putting 2,200 workers on paid leave as planned by the end of the day after employee groups filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s authority to shut down the agency.

U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols said after a hastily called hearing that he will enter a “limited” order in the lawsuit, brought Thursday, and was still weighing whether to order the government to undo the decision to place an additional 500 workers on paid leave.

Nichols said he would explain his decision in writing Friday evening, and cautioned that his freeze would be temporary while both sides flesh out their complex but hastily sketched-out claims.

But he said after a 90-minute hearing that the claimants established that they could suffer “irreparable harms” to their families, finances and security overseas, with “enough likelihood of success on the merits.”

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