Washington (AP) – A federal judge on Friday President Donald Trump and billionaire Ally Elon Musk specified her first large setback at the disassembly of the US agency for international development and a short-lived raise in plans, thousands of the agency from the ongoing to pull.
The US district judge Carl Nichols, a Trump representative, also said to block a command to block the thousands of USAID workers who wanted to go to the administration on Abrupt administrative leave.
Both steps had suspended the US workers and their spouses and children unjustified risks and costs, said the judge.
Nichols pointed out on accounts of workers abroad that the Trump administration in its hurry, the agency and its programs abroad to close a security emergency.
The Associated Press previously reported that USAID officers in the Middle East and elsewhere had even found “Panic key” apps that extinguished or deactivated their mobile phones when the administration broke them abruptly.
“The administrative holiday in Syria is not the same as the administrative holiday in Bethesda,” said the judge on Friday evening in his order.
In the agreement to end the 30-day period that the USA’s employees were able to return at the expense of state costs, Nichol’s statements from the agency’s employees who had no home abroad after decades to leave children with special needs from school To pull the school that were pulled out of school in the middle of the year and had different difficulties.
The judge also ordered the USID employees who have already been on leave by the Trump administration. However, he rejected an application from two federal employees to grant a short-lived block for freezing the Trump administration, which has concluded the six decades aged agency and its work until more hearing for the workers’ lawsuit.
In the hearing on Friday on Friday, Nichols emphasized the request to pause the measures of the Trump government that his order was not a decision on the request of the employees to resist the agency’s rapidly moving destruction by the administration.
“Complete it,” Trump said on the social media of USAID before the judge’s decision.
The American Foreign Service Association and the American Federation of Government argue that Trump lacks the authority to close the agency without the consent of the congress. Democratic legislators have brought the same argument.
Trump’s administration moved quickly on Friday to literally delete the name of the agency. The workers on a crane scrubbed the name of the stone front of his headquarters in Washington. They used adhesive tape to lock it out on a sign and to put down the USAID flags. Someone put a bouquet of flowers in front of the door.
The Trump administration and the Musk, which operates a budget ministry of the government efficiency, made USAID its greatest goal so far in an unprecedented challenge of the federal government and many of its programs.
The administrative officers and Musk teams have closed almost all funds for the agency and stopped support and development programs worldwide. You have brought employees and contractors on vacation and vacation and closed them from the egg mail and other systems of the agency. According to democratic legislators, they have also carted the USAID computer servers away.
“This is a comprehensive equipment of practically all employees of an entire agency,” said Karla Gilbride, the lawyer of the employee associations, the judge.
The lawyer of the Ministry of Justice, Brett Shumate, argued that the administration has all the legal authority that it needs to bring the agency’s employees on vacation. “The government does this every day in general,” said Shumate. “That happens here. It’s just a large number. “
The judgment on Friday is the latest setback of the courts for the Trump administration, whose politics for the resignation and termination of birth law citizenship for people born in the US Offer federal employees.
On Friday on Friday, a group of half a dozen USAID officials who spoke to reporters emphasized the claims of Foreign Minister Marco Rubio that the most critical life-saving programs abroad received the exemption in order to continue financing. The officials said nobody.
Regarding the programs that they said about no exception: $ 450 million in food grown by US farmers, the sufficient to feed 36 million people who were not paid or delivered; and water supply for 1.6 million people who were sold by the war in the Sudan Darf Region, which were cut off without money to operate water pumps in the desert.
The judge’s order included the Trump government’s decision at the beginning of this week to pull almost all USAID workers from the job and the field worldwide.
The Republicans of Trump and Congress have spoken of letting a well-reduced number of support and development programs as part of the Foreign Ministry.
Within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the employees fear that, according to civil servants who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals Federal workers have to resign from the Trump administration. A judge temporarily blocked this offer and set a hearing on Monday.
At the beginning of this week, the administration published almost all USAI employees in overseas from Friday to return to the USA, with the government paid for its travel and relocation costs. Diplomats in embassies asked for exceptional regulations that enable more time for some, including families who were forced to pull their children out of schools in the middle of the year.
In a announcement published on the United States, the agency made it clear that none of the employees who were overseas would be forced to leave the country in which they work. But it is said that workers who have decided to stay for more than 30 days may have to cover their own expenses unless they received a certain waiver of difficulty.
Rubio said on Thursday during a trip to the Dominican Republic that the government would support employees “if they wish” within 30 days and listen to those with special conditions.
He insisted that the movements were the only way to maintain a collaboration, since the employees “to sneak through payments and but to search payments” despite the stop order for foreign support. The agency’s employees deny his claims of disabilities.
Rubio said the US government will continue to offer foreign support, “but it will be foreign help that makes sense and is geared towards our national interest.”
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AP reporter Matthew Lee, Farnoush Amiri and Lindsay Whitehurst in Washington contributed to this report.
