The latest legal wranglings over President Donald Trump’s second-term policy seeking to rid the federal government of waste, fraud, and abuse took place on Thursday, with a judge’s ruling to extend the pause in the process of placing most of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) agency’s employees on leave.
The order temporarily blocking the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) move was set to expire on Friday, but District of Columbia U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols ruled that he will move it up a week to Feb. 21. He also modified the prior order in another way:
The TRO’s statement that “[n]o USAID employees shall be evacuated from their host countries” while the TRO is in place is amended to state that “[n]o USAID employees shall be involuntarily evacuated from their host countries” while the TRO is in place.
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