Washington:
An American judge on Friday said he would stop plans to keep a 2,200 US agency for international development employees on vacation, ending the Trump administration as part of a temporary “limited” order to end the agency Will stop taking some steps.
US District Judge Carl Nicholas in Washington, who was nominated by President Donald Trump during his first term, made the decision on the sidelines of the US government’s largest workers ‘union and foreign service workers’ association trial. Announced, who filed a lawsuit to stop it. Efforts to close the administration agency.
Nicholas said the written decision would be issued on Friday. He was not inclined to reopen USAID buildings from the unions and to make other requests for agency grants and financing for contracts.
The administration said in a notice sent to foreign aid agency workers on Thursday that they would keep 611 essential workers out of a manpower worldwide in USAID that is more than 10,000 overall –
“A major reduction in power, as well as the closure of offices, were exceeded in violation of the separation of migrating powers, as well as the closure of offices,” said Carla Gilbride. “ Hearing
Brett Schmidt, an official of the Justice Department, told Nicholas that about 2,200 USAID employees would be put on salary leave under administration plans, adding that 500 had already been kept on vacation. –
“The President has decided that USAID has corruption and fraud,” Schmidt said.
However, the judge said that his order would be able to prevent these 2,200 employees from being immediately on the administrative leave and would also prevent some humanitarian workers stationed outside the United States.
Trump accused USAID on Friday in a post on Social Social on Friday – without any evidence – corruption and spending money.
He said: “USAID is making the radical leftist crazy, and they can’t do anything about because the way in which the money has been spent, with a lot of fraud, absolutely non Corruption is rare before.
A few hours after his inauguration on January 20, Trump ordered all foreign aid to be stopped to ensure that he was linked to his “US First” policy. The chaos has since used USAID, which distributes billions of dollars of humanitarian aid worldwide.
The State Department issued stopwork directs worldwide after the executive order was issued, which effectively frozen all foreign aid except for emergency food aid. This has led to a grinding of USAID programs around the world, which covers a grinding programs, experts warned that people have been threatened.
The agency’s gutting is largely monitored by Trump’s close ally, led by businessman Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and the president’s efforts to shrink the federal bureaucracy.
In the financial year of 2023, the United States partially divided by USAID, which is a worldwide $ 72 billion worldwide aid worldwide, with women’s health to everything in conflict areas. Access to water, HIV/AIDS treatment, energy safety and anti -corruption tasks have been accessed.
It provided 42 % of all humanitarian aid obtained by the United Nations in 2024, yet less than 1 % of its total budget.
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