On Friday, a federal judge stopped the Trump administration from keeping 2,200 employees of the US agency on a salary leave for international development.
US District Judge and Donald Trump’s appointment, Carl Nicholas, agreed with two federal employees’ associations, agreed to pay employees on a salary leave by midnight.
The forced departure began on Friday when a court decision came when workers tried to stop the administration’s six -decade -old relief agency and its programs around the world.
The hearing before the judge on Friday afternoon told the plaintiffs that the administration did not have the authority to close any agency under the Congress legislation.
The administration was tried against the US government’s largest workers union and the agency’s efforts to stop the agency.
Nicholas said the written decision would be issued on Friday. He was not inclined to reopen USAID buildings from the unions and make other requests for the restoration of funds.
“A major reduction in power, as well as the closure of offices, forcibly transmitting all powers, was more than the executive’s authority,” said Carla Gilbride, a lawyer for the union, said Carla Gilbride. Hearing
The White House claims that USAID has a fraud.
Trump earlier said on USAID’s social media, “Stop it.”
In the morning, the staff used a duct tape to stop the agency’s name on a mark outside its Washington DC headquarters and a flag was taken down. Someone kept a bouquet of flowers outside the door.
A group of half a dozen USAID officials who spoke to reporters on Friday with Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday have strongly disputed with the Secretary of State to continue the most essential life -saving programs abroad. Getting a discount. Apart from several hundred staff, when several hundred staff forced and the funds were stopped, the agency existed, a call official said.
The Trump administration and the billionaire ally Elon Musk, who are running the budget -cutting “performance of the department”, have hardly targeted USAID so far in the extraordinary challenges of the federal government and many of its programs.
According to USAID staff and officials, the administration told the remaining USAID officials on Thursday afternoon that it had planned to exempt 297 employees from a global departure and at least 8,000 staff and Order for contractors.
Officials said that at the end of this night, a new list of 611 employees was finalized to stay on the job, many of them managing the return of thousands of staff, contractors and their families abroad. For Brett Schmidt, a lawyer for the Justice Department, confirmed the data of 611 in court.
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USAID officials and staff spoke on condition of anonymity because of the Trump administration’s order.
Some of the rest of the staff and contractors, with an unknown number of employees abroad, will run a few life -saving programs, which the administration says it wants to continue.
It was not immediately clear whether the reduction would be permanent or temporary.
Trump and Musk have talked about transferring surviving programs under the State Department. According to unidentified officials, within the Foreign Ministry, employees are likely to decrease the staff after the deadline for the Trump administration’s deadline for federal workers to resign. A judge temporarily blocked the offer and heard for Monday.
In USAID, in these programs, officials said they did not receive a discount: $ 50 450 million foods grown by US farmers is enough to feed 36 million people, which is not paid or supplied. Was going And supply of water for 1.6 million people displaced by war in the Sudan’s Darfur region, who were cutting without any money for fuel for running water pumps in the desert.
Associated Press and Reuters provided reporting.
