Trump Judge Blocks Firing Of 2200 USAID Workers

Politico reports:

A federal judge today ordered an immediate halt to key aspects of President Donald Trump’s effort to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, blocking Secretary of State Marco Rubio from placing 2,200 employees of the agency on leave in a matter of hours.

“They should not put those 2,200 people on administrative leave,” U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, told Trump administration attorneys at an emergency hearing Friday.

Nichols said he is still weighing whether to order the government to recall 500 workers already placed on leave in recent days while a lawsuit brought by USAID employees and their union proceeds.

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