Judge temporarily blocks 2,200 USAID workers from being placed on leave by midnight (1 Viewer)

[FOX News]

A Trump-appointed judge said at an emergency hearing on Friday that he would put a temporary block on the administration's plan to put 2,200 U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) employees on paid leave by midnight, Fox News has learned.

He also told a government lawyer that he’s not sure whether he would include the 500 employees already placed on leave in his order.

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols sided with two federal employee associations – the American Foreign Service Association and the American Federation of Government...

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