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US district judge Carl Nichols, appointed by the president of the United States himself, Donald Trump, gave President Donald Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk his first great setback.
Donald Trump has criticized USAID for financing projects that he considers a waste, accusing him of misuse of taxpayers’ money and promoting agendas contrary to the interests of the United States. (Image: AFP)
A federal judge treated President Donald Trump on Friday and the ally of billionaire Elon Musk Labor Agency.
The United States District Judge, Carl Nichols, appointed by Trump, also agreed to families and homes to the United States at the expense of the government. .
Both movements would have exposed to US workers and their spouses and children at unjustified risk and expenses, said the judge.
Nichols pointed to the workers’ accounts abroad that the Trump administration, in its trouble for closing the agency and its programs abroad, had eliminated some workers from the government’s emails and other communication systems that they needed to arrive to arrive to the United States government in case of health or health or health emergency.
Associated Press previously reported that USAID contractors in the Middle East and in other places had found that even the “panic button” applications annihilated their mobile phones or disabled when the administration overwhelmed them.
“The administrative license in Syria is not the same as the administrative license in Bethesda,” the judge said in his order on Friday night.
By accepting to stop the 30 -day deadline given to USAID employees to return home at the expense of the Government, Nichols cited statements from agency employees who did not have home in the United States after decades abroad, who faced each other To get children with special needs out of the middle of the school. , and had other difficulties.
The judge also ordered the USAID employees already licensed by the Trump Restabbed administration. But he rejected a request from two federal associations of employees to grant a temporary block in a financing freezing of the Trump administration that has closed the agency of six decades and their work, waiting for more audiences on the demand of workers.
Nichols emphasized the audience on Friday on the request to stop the actions of the Trump administration that his order was not a decision on employees’ request to reverse the rapid destruction of the administration agency.
“Closing,” Trump said on Usaid’s social networks before the judge’s ruling.
The American Foreign Service Association and the American Federation of Government employees argue that Trump lacks the authority to close the agency without the approval of the Congress. Democratic legislators have presented the same argument.
Trump’s administration quickly moved on Friday to literally erase the agency’s name.
The workers in a crane eliminated the name of the stone front from their Washington headquarters. They used adhesive tape to block it on a sign and knocked down the USAID flags. Someone placed a bouquet of flowers off the door.
The Trump administration and the musk, which directs a government reduction government efficiency department, have made USAID their biggest objective so far in an unprecedented challenge of the federal government and many of its programs.
Those appointed from the administration and Musk teams have closed almost all funds for the agency, stopping aid and development programs worldwide. They have placed employees and contractors on license and license and blocked them from email and other agency systems. According to Democratic legislators, they also carried the USAID computer servers.
“This is a large -scale destruction of practically all the staff of a complete agency,” said Karla Gilbride, the lawyer of employee associations, to the judge.
The lawyer of the Brett Shumate Department of Justice argued that the Administration has all the legal authority it needs to place the employees of the agency licensed. “The government does this every day every day,” said Shumate. “That is what is happening here. It’s just a large number.”
Friday’s ruling is the last setback in the courts for the Trump administration, whose policies to offer financial incentives for federal workers to renounce and end the citizenship of birth law for any person born in the United States to someone in the Country have been temporarily leisurely by judges.
The earliest Friday, a group of half a dozen USAID officials who spoke with journalists disputed the claims of the Secretary of State Marco Rubio that the most essential programs that save lives abroad were obtaining exemptions to continue with funds. None was, officials said.
Among the programs that, they said, had not received exemptions: $ 450 million in food cultivated by sufficient American farmers to feed 36 million people, which was not paid or delivered; and water supplies for 1.6 million people displaced by the war in the Darfur region of Sudan, which were being cut without money so that the fuel executes water pumps in the desert.
The judge’s order involved the decision of the Trump administration earlier this week of getting almost all USAID workers out of the work and outside the country’s field.
Trump and the Republicans of Congress have talked about moving a very small number of aid and development programs under the State Department.
Within the State Department, employees fear substantial reductions of personnel after the deadline for the offer of financial incentives of the Trump administration so that federal workers would resign, according to officials who spoke under condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. A judge temporarily blocked that offer and established a hearing on Monday.
The administration earlier this week gave almost all USAID employees registered 30 days abroad, starting Friday, to return to the US, with the government paying their travel and move costs. Embassy diplomats asked for exemptions that allowed more time for some, including families forced to get their children out of schools in the middle of the year.
In a notice published on the USAID website on Thursday night, the agency clarified that none of the personnel abroad who licensed would be forced to leave the country where they work. But he said that workers who chose to stay more than 30 days could have to cover their own expenses unless they receive an exemption from specific difficulties.
Rubio said Thursday during a trip to the Dominican Republic that the Government would help employees get home within 30 days “if they wish” and listen to those with special conditions.
He insisted that the movements were the only way to obtain cooperation because employees were working “to sneak into payments and overcome payments despite the stop order” in foreign assistance. Agency employees deny their obstruction claims.
Rubio said that the United States government will continue to provide foreign help, “but it will be a foreign aid that makes sense and is aligned with our national interest.”
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