A federal judge on Friday paved the way for the Trump administration to place more than 2,000 US Agency for International Development (USAID) workers on vacation. Agent.
Washington US District Judge Carl Nichols lifted the temporary restraining order that he introduced at the beginning of the case and refused to issue a long-term order that would keep employees in posts. He wrote that he was satisfied with the administration's assurance in his court declaration that USAID officials placed on leave were still protected by US security.
Nichols, appointed in his first term by Donald Trump, does not have jurisdiction to hear union lawsuits because the affected employees did not go through the administrative dispute process, or the administration is more likely to have the administration to do so. He wrote that he had no jurisdiction over considering broad arguments. It violates the US Constitution by shutting down institutions created and funded by Congress.
“We are disappointed with today's decision and believe that the harm facing USAID workers is genuine. We are confident that the court will find an administration's efforts to sack USAID against the law. “We're doing this,” Sky Perryman, ahead of the law's nonprofit democracy, said in a statement.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The lawsuit was filed earlier this month by the Federation of US Government Employees and the American Foreign Office Association. Although Nichols has not yet considered the claim, the global poverty countermeasure group Oxfam has since joined the incident.
Trump ordered a 90-day freeze on all foreign aid on his first day in office, casting global humanitarian relief efforts into chaos.
Over the next few weeks, authorities have taken measures that largely shut down USAID operations, including placing many of their staff on vacation and suspending or terminating most of their contracts and closing Washington headquarters. Ta.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio took over the acting director of USAID, which was established in 1998 as an independent agency from the State Department, said in a letter to Congress on February 4. Shut down some of the USAID and the rest.
The freeze on foreign aid and potential USAID shutdowns have prompted multiple legal challenges.
Nichols' orders will ensure that another judge, who is primarily sided with lawsuits against the administration by foreign aid contractors and grant recipients, resumes the freeze agreement and grant payments the second day after. Ordered to the previous order.
