
A federal judge late Friday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's plan to gut the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) by halting plans to put more than 2,000 employees on leave and reinstating 500 employees already removed.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, in the order issued shortly before the midnight deadline also paused a directive that the agency's Foreign Service officers have 30 days to return to the United States, according to NPR.