Judge pauses Trump plan to put thousands of USAID staff on leave
Only about 600 out of 10,000 employees would have kept working at the agency under the president's plan.
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Judge pauses Trump plan to put USAID staff on leave
Judge Carl Nichols said he would be entering a "very limited" temporary restraining order directed at the 2,200 at-risk USAID workers.CNBC - 2h -
USAID tells staff only a few hundred will be retained
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Federal judge pauses administrative leave for thousands of USAID employees
A federal judge said he will pause a midnight deadline for the U.S. Agency for International Development to be stripped down to a few hundred workers from a workforce of more than 5,000.NBC News - 3h -
Judge to pause Trump administration effort to gut USAID's workforce by thousands
A federal judge on Friday said he will pause a midnight deadline for the U.S. Agency for International Development to be stripped down to a few hundred workers from a workforce of more than 5,000.NBC News - 3h
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