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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Judge puts brakes on Trump’s plan to fire USAID workforce hours before midnight purge

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has put the brakes on Donald Trump’s plan to gut the United States Agency for International Development workforce.

District Judge Carl J. Nichols — who was appointed by Trump — granted a temporary restraining order Friday that blocks the Trump administration from placing roughly 2,200 USAID workers on administrative leave, hours before the administration was set to send them packing at midnight.

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