An American judge on Friday stopped President Donald Trump’s administration’s plan to abolish the agency, about 2,700 US Agency for International Development (USAID) by President Donald Trump’s administration (USAID ) Allowed employees to go back to work.
In Washington, US District Judge Carl Nicholas, who was nominated by Trump during his first term, partially applied by the US Government’s largest workers ‘union and foreign services workers’ association, which He filed a lawsuit to stop efforts to close the administration agency.
Nicholas’ ruling, which will be implemented by February 14, prevents the Trump administration from implementing plans to keep about 2,200 US aid workers on salary on a holiday on Saturday and about 500 500 employees. Restores that were already felt.
It also prevented the administration from transferring US -based human workers stationed outside the United States.
Nicholas will consider a long -term interval request at a scheduled hearing on Wednesday. He wrote in the order that if the court did not interfere, the unions had “shown strong harm”.
Nicholas rejected other requests from unions to reopen US aid buildings and restore 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 decline in power, as well as the closure of offices, forcibly transferring the offices, was more than the executives’ authority,” said Carla Gilbride, a lawyer for the union. Earlier, a court hearing on Friday.
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,” Summit said.
Trump accused USAID on Friday in a post on Social Social on Friday – without any evidence – corruption and fraud. Writing in the caps Lock, he said that corruption in USAID is “at the level that is rarely seen first. Stop it!”
Hours after his inauguration on January 20, Trump stopped all foreign aids to ensure that he was associated with 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 assistance through the United Nations in 2024, yet less than 1pc of its total budget.
US Judge refuses to block Elon Musk’s Dodge from the Labor Department System
In a separate development, a federal judge on Friday refused to stop the US Department of Labor System, the official cost of Elon Musk, which is a preliminary setback for public employee unions, which shrinks federal bureaucracy. Resistance to efforts.
The temporary decision of US District Judge John Butts in Washington, DC is the first step to prosecute the Labor Department by the largest US Labor Union, alleging that the billionaire Musk investigates his companies and rivals. I can get sensitive information. By accessing the official computer system.
Bits ruled that “although the court stops concerns about the alleged behavior of the defendant”, the US Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) did not show that the Department of Labor was The steps have damaged it.
AFL-CIO President Liz Shuller said in a statement that the decision was “blow, but not defeat”, and that the union would provide further evidence to support its claims. A spokesman for the Labor Department did not immediately respond to the request for the comment sent late on Friday.
President Donald Trump has ousted the world’s richest man and electric vehicle company Tesla, Space Technology Company Space X and other businesses, Musk. The government’s performance, or dodge to identify the government’s fraud and waste.
Musk’s efforts have frightened legislators and advocate groups who say they are promoting their authority by trying to eliminate government programs and federal workers.
Another group of Federal Employees and Retired Unions has filed a lawsuit against the Treasury Department so that it has illegal delivery of sensitive payment records to the Dage personnel to block what they say. Treasury temporarily agreed on Wednesday not to give any access when the case was over.
In the labor department, the AFL-CIO asked the court to stop what it had said that the Musk had planned to reach the department’s system.
The union, which represents about 800 800,000 government workers, said it, with a potential professional security and health administration investigation, as well as Space X, Tesla and its tunnel company, boring company, as well. Investigation of rivals will have access to non -public information. .
The Union also said that in the absence of judicial intervention, the Dodge can access labor statistics data about the health of the economy and sensitive information about public servants, including the identity of those who workers. Claims for compensation have been filed or sought for protection for wages and hours of complaints
The White House has said that Kasturi will recover itself from matters in which its interests are a dispute. As a so -called special government employee, he is subject to some people, but not all disputes and morals for federal workers.
South Africa’s rapid occupation of US government agencies has enabled a businessman in South Africa to gain extraordinary control over the federal manpower of 2.2 million members of the United States and begin the government’s dramatically new shape. –
Musk has already moved forward to close USAID, saying that the agency is canceling government consultation agreements and low -used leases.
