Judge temporarily blocks Trump from placing 2,200 USAid workers on leave
by Guardian staff and agencies from on (#6V4S7)
Forced leaves had already begun when ruling came through, as workers tried to halt dismantling of agency
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from placing 2,200 employees of the US Agency for International Development on paid leave.
Carl Nichols, a US district judge and Donald Trump appointee, sided with two federal employee associations in agreeing to a pause in plans to put the employees on paid leave as of midnight Friday.
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