A federal judge on Friday issued a limited order shielding 2,200 U.S. Agency for International Development employees from being placed on leave or abruptly relocated but stopped short of blocking the Trump administration’s broader overhaul of the agency.

A federal judge temporarily barred USAID from putting 2,200 workers on paid leave after employee groups filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s authority to shut down the agency.

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A federal judge said he will pause a midnight deadline for the U.S. Agency for International Development to be stripped down to a few hundred workers from a workforce of more than 5,000.

A federal judge paused Thursday’s deadline for federal employees to accept the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offer while more proceedings on the program’s legality play out.

The judge temporarily barred USAID from putting 2,200 workers on paid leave after employee groups filed a lawsuit challenging the administration’s authority to shut down the agency.

A judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's plan to place 2,200 employees of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on paid leave, hours before it was due to happen. Judge Carl Nichols said he would issue a "very limited" temporary restraining order in response to a lawsuit filed by unions,

A Trump-appointed judge said at an emergency hearing on Friday that he would put a temporary block on the administration's plan to put 2,200 USAID, the U.S. Agency for International Development, employees on paid leave by midnight,

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who was nominated by Trump, sided with two federal employee associations in agreeing to a pause in plans to put 2,200 employees on paid leave as of midnight Friday. Nichols stressed his order was not a decision on the employees' request to roll back the administration's swiftly moving destruction of the agency.

A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to immediately halt putting at least 2,200 employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development on administrative leave.