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Mark Moore

Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump's Purge Of USAID Workers

A worker removes the U.S. Agency for International Development sign on their headquarters Friday in Washington, DC. (Credit: Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

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.

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