A federal judge has temporarily halted a deadline for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to be drastically reduced in size, from over 5,000 workers to just a few hundred. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols made this announcement after a hearing in Washington D.C. The American Foreign Service Association and the American Federation of Government Employees sued the Trump administration after it announced that thousands of USAID employees would be placed on administrative leave as part of a plan to reshape the federal government. The groups argued that this move has caused a global humanitarian crisis and asked the court to issue a temporary restraining order and injunction to stop the shutdown. The situation is ongoing, and updates are expected. Gary Grumbach and Zoë Richards are reporters for NBC News, based in Washington, D.C.
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