About 2,200 USAID employees were set to be placed on leave Friday night at 11:59 p.m. ET, as part of President Donald Trump's efforts to shut down the independent government agency.

Judge pauses Trump order to put USAID employees on administrative leave Updated February 8, 2025 11:28 AM ET Originally published February 7, 2025 6:33 PM ET By ...

Brendan Ballou, Former Federal Prosecutor, Karoun Demirjian New York Times Congressional Reporter, and Andrew Weissmann, MSNBC Legal Analyst join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with ...

Judge pauses Donald Trump's plan to put thousands of USAID workers on leave. The US president, and Elon Musk's cost-slashing department, have suffered their first big setback in their strategy to ...

The judge issued a restraining order that would block 2,200 employees from being put on administrative leave as was scheduled ...

A judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from placing 2,200 workers at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on paid leave, hours before it was due to happen. Judge ...

About 2,200 USAID employees were set to be placed on leave Friday night at 11:59 p.m. ET, as part of President Donald Trump's efforts to shut down the independent government agency.

Judge pauses Trump plan to put USAID staff on leave ... Nichols questioned DOJ attorney Brett Shumate about why the Trump administration needed to place 2,200 USAID workers on leave so quickly.

A federal judge on Friday said he would temporarily pause the Trump administration's plan to place thousands of workers at the U.S. Agency for International Development on administrative leave ...