{"id":45175,"date":"2025-02-07T23:28:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T23:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=45175"},"modified":"2026-07-08T02:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:22:00","slug":"us-judge-to-enter-limited-temporary-order-to-block-trump-from-moving-to-dismantle-usaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2025\/02\/07\/us-judge-to-enter-limited-temporary-order-to-block-trump-from-moving-to-dismantle-usaid\/","title":{"rendered":"US judge to enter &#8216;limited&#8217; temporary order to block Trump from moving to dismantle USAid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A US judge on Friday said he will enter a \u201cvery limited\u201d temporary order blocking&nbsp;<strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s administration from taking certain steps to dismantle the US Agency for International Development (USaid), according to Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US district judge&nbsp;<strong>Carl Nichols<\/strong>&nbsp;in Washington said he would issue the order following a lawsuit by the largest US government workers\u2019 union and an association of foreign service workers, who sued on Thursday to stop the administration\u2019s efforts to dismantle the agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a notice sent to the foreign aid agency\u2019s workers on Thursday, the administration said it will keep 611 essential workers onboard at USaid out of a worldwide workforce that totals more than 10,000. This move has largely been directed by&nbsp;<strong>Elon Musk<\/strong>, who\u2019s spearheading the president\u2019s effort to shrink the federal bureaucracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A justice department official,&nbsp;<strong>Brett Shumate<\/strong>, told Nichols that about 2,200 USAid employees would be put on paid leave under the administration\u2019s plans, saying: \u201cThe president has decided there is corruption and fraud at USAid.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US judge on Friday said he will enter a \u201cvery limited\u201d temporary order blocking&nbsp;Donald Trump\u2019s administration from taking certain steps to dismantle the US Agency for International Development (USaid), according to Reuters. US district judge&nbsp;Carl Nichols&nbsp;in Washington said he would issue the order following a lawsuit by the largest US government workers\u2019 union and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":45177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[6850,1384,4119,8660,6428,6085,2264,10954,12005,10419,7956,7259,3805,7023,7465,7231,184,6348,2354,594,6974],"class_list":["post-45175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-aid","tag-corruption","tag-elon-musk","tag-essential","tag-foreign-aid","tag-fraud","tag-government","tag-international","tag-judge","tag-justice","tag-justice-department","tag-musk","tag-president","tag-shrink","tag-sued","tag-union","tag-united-states-president-donald-john-trump-jr","tag-us","tag-washington","tag-who","tag-worldwide"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45178,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45175\/revisions\/45178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}