{"id":6000,"date":"2025-02-13T23:41:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T23:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/judge-extends-halt-on-trump-plan-to-dismantle-u-s-a-i-d\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T23:41:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T23:41:39","slug":"judge-extends-halt-on-trump-plan-to-dismantle-u-s-a-i-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/judge-extends-halt-on-trump-plan-to-dismantle-u-s-a-i-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Extends Halt on Trump Plan to Dismantle U.S.A.I.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A federal judge on Thursday moved to extend by one week a temporary restraining order preventing the Trump administration from carrying out <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/04\/us\/usaid-musk-trump-rubio-cuts.html\" title=\"\">plans that would all but dismantle<\/a> the U.S. Agency for International Development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The order, which Judge Carl Nichols of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said he would file later Thursday, continues to stall <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/04\/us\/usaid-musk-trump-rubio-cuts.html\" title=\"\">a directive<\/a> that would put a quarter of its employees <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/11\/us\/politics\/trump-usaid-lawsuit-foreign-aid.html\" title=\"\">on administrative leave<\/a> while forcing those posted overseas to return to the United States within 30 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Judge Nichols said he would rule by the end of next week on whether to grant the plaintiffs\u2019 request for a preliminary injunction that would indefinitely block key elements of the high-profile Trump administration effort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The plan was driven in large part by Elon Musk, the billionaire tech entrepreneur tasked with making cuts to the federal budget, to shutter an agency he and Mr. Trump have vilified. The Trump directive would affect about 2,700 direct hires of U.S.A.I.D., including hundreds of Foreign Service officers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The lawsuit was filed by two unions representing the affected U.S.A.I.D. employees: the American Foreign Service Association, to which aid workers in global missions belong, and the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents other direct hires. They have argued that President Trump\u2019s executive order freezing foreign aid for 90 days and subsequent directives to dismantle certain U.S.A.I.D. operations and reduce staff were unconstitutional, and have asked the court to overturn them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Democratic lawmakers, U.S.A.I.D. workers, and the aid organizations that depend on U.S. foreign assistance have <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/12\/us\/politics\/usaid-waivers-rubio.html\" title=\"\">decried any moves to unilaterally shut down the agency<\/a> as unlawful, as its role in the federal government was established by law and Congress funded it, like the rest of the government, through March 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During a hearing on Thursday, Judge Nichols pressed Karla Gilbride, the lawyer for the plaintiffs, on why being placed on administrative leave would cause irreparable harm to the employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He also asked Ms. Gilbride a series of questions about why the unions and the employees they represent had not first sought relief through established arbitration processes for the federal work force \u2014 an argument that the Justice Department had made in its responses to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Gilbride said that if employees went through an arbitration process, there might not be a U.S.A.I.D. left to employ them by the time their cases were considered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis court is the only forum that can address these harms on the time scale that this urgent situation demands,\u201d she said, noting that the administrative processes in question were designed to handle the grievances of individual employees, not an entire federal agency on the brink of dissolution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Whether federal employee unions can experience the direct harm necessary to file a lawsuit \u2014 a concept known as standing \u2014 became an issue in another case against the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Unions, including the American Federation of Government Employees, challenged an offer to pay federal workers through September if they agreed to resign. The judge in that case, George A. O\u2019Toole of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/12\/us\/politics\/trump-federal-workers-buyout.html\" title=\"\">ruled on Wednesday<\/a> that the unions did not have the standing to sue because they had not been directly affected by the offer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Judge O\u2019Toole also noted that Congress had established administrative processes for raising the type of claims at issue in the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Eric Hamilton, the Justice Department lawyer, made a similar argument about the U.S.A.I.D. employees on Thursday, pointing to the existence of administrative processes for settling labor disputes involving the federal work force.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe certainly don\u2019t think unions coming to district court is the right form to litigate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But those administrative processes can take years, and Mr. Trump has also targeted some of them. On Monday, he <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/13\/us\/politics\/trump-fires-government-employees.html\" title=\"\">fired the chairwoman of the Merit Systems Protection Board<\/a>, which hears appeals to firings and other disciplinary actions against federal employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Gilbride on Thursday made a series of arguments about the uncertainties and dangers facing workers stranded overseas and in bureaucratic limbo, some of whom submitted testimonials about being in physical danger and struggling to get security guidance because they were unable to access their accounts to receive official communications. These included several officers posted to the Democratic Republic of Congo, who described how they were left to determine whether and how to flee Kinshasa amid protests, as demonstrators approached their houses and, in one case, looted all of one officer\u2019s belongings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Gilbride said they and the rest of the U.S.A.I.D. Foreign Service officers had been \u201cforced under extreme time pressure\u201d to choose whether to uproot their families and return to the United States, with the understanding that the Trump administration would not extend relocation assistance to those who resisted departing on the U.S. government\u2019s timeline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump\u2019s political appointees and Mr. Musk, labeled a \u201cspecial government employee\u201d by the White House, are aiming to cut most of the around $70 billion of annual foreign aid money that is allocated through congressional mandates and legislation. About $40 billion of that amount is funneled through U.S.A.I.D., accounting for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/us-foreign-aid-freeze-explained.html\" title=\"\">less than 1 percent of the annual federal budget<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Hamilton defended planned cuts to the agency\u2019s work force as falling within Mr. Trump\u2019s purview. He acknowledged the unique safety risks employees in high-risk locations faced and assured Judge Nichols that the administration was taking steps to protect them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou can understand, I\u2019m sure, why I would not want to be in the position of having government employees overseas be at risk because they are placed on administrative leave,\u201d Judge Nichols said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe share the concern about the security of U.S.A.I.D. employees,\u201d Mr. Hamilton said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Pressed by the judge to detail those additional measures, Mr. Hamilton said he did not know what they were.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Judge Nichols instructed him to provide the court with details about the safety measures. He also asked Mr. Hamilton to give the court information about what the administrative leave status meant for other nonsalary benefits that come with an overseas employee\u2019s post, such as diplomatic housing and school tuitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The government has said employees on administrative leave would continue to be paid, but U.S.A.I.D. Foreign Service officers expect that they would lose many of the additional benefits afforded to those who work globally if they are forced to return to the United States. For an officer without a home base in the United States, losing those benefits could force a dip into savings to keep a roof over their head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It is also not clear how long employees put on administrative leave would remain on that status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Lawyers for the Trump administration have said that officials had determined that only 611 of U.S.A.I.D.\u2019s approximately 10,000 workers were too \u201cessential\u201d to be put on administrative leave or terminated, for now. They defended the drastic planned cuts by arguing in court documents that \u201cthe president\u2019s powers in the realm of foreign affairs are vast and generally unreviewable.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The lawsuit is one of several seeking to beat back the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to severely restrict foreign aid, which has affected not just U.S.A.I.D.\u2019s work force, but the global network of aid organizations that depend on the U.S. to carry out humanitarian, health and development programs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Another suit pending before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/11\/us\/politics\/trump-usaid-lawsuit-foreign-aid.html\" title=\"\">brought by a group of contractors<\/a> and nongovernmental 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