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A federal judge on Friday ordered a temporary block in the plans of the Trump administration Put 2,200 employees of the United States Agency for License International Development.
The United States District Judge, Carl Nichols, appointed by Trump, also agreed to block an order that would have given only 30 days for the thousands of USAID workers abroad that the administration wanted Their families to the United States in the United States in government. bills.
According to the judge, both actions of the administration would have exposed workers and their families at unnecessary risk and expenses.
This comes as President Donald Trump and ELON ALMIZCLEWho leads the government’s efficiency department, seeks to dismantle the agency.
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Protesters and legislators come together against President Donald Trump and his ally Elon Musk by interrupting the federal government, including the dismantling of the US International Development Agency in Capitol Hill in Washington, on Wednesday, February 5, 2025. (AP Photo / J. Scott Applewhite)
Nichols said that employees living abroad have said that the administration had eliminated some workers from the government’s emails and other communication systems necessary to reach the United States government in case of a health or safety emergency.
USAID contractors in several regions, including the Middle East, even reported that the “panic button” applications had been removed from their phones or disabled when the administration placed them abruptly licensed.
“The administrative license in Syria is not the same as the administrative license in Bethesda,” said the judge.
An employee of the United States International Development Agency (USAID) who wanted to remain anonymous protests outside the USAID headquarters on February 3, 2025 in Washington, DC (Getty images)
The judge also pointed to the workers that they indicate difficulties that would arise from the 30 -day timeline to return to the US., Including that they had no home to return in the US. UU. After decades abroad and that they would be forced to attract children with special needs. outside school in the middle of the school year.
Nichols ordered that the 500 USAID employees who had already been licensed were reinstated.
But the The judge refused A request for two federal associations of employees to grant a temporary block in a freezing funds imposed by the administration that the agency and its work has closed, waiting for more hearings on the demand of workers.
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The American flag that flies only next to an empty toast spot that previously had the USAID flag is shown in the reflection of a window that previously had the sign and the USAID label, on Friday, February 7, 2025. (AP)
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Nichols emphasized the audience on the early Friday that his order to stop the administration’s actions was not a decision on the request of employees to block the administration’s efforts to quickly destroy the agency.
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Associated Press contributed to this report.
