Trump, Carl J. Nichols and USAID

USAID employees ask a judge to keep blocking Trump’s effort to pull most of them off the job
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who was nominated by Trump, handed the administration and billionaire ally Elon Musk a setback last week by temporarily halting plans that would have put thousands of workers on leave and given those abroad only 30 days to return to the United States at government expense.
Judge extends pause on Trump plan to put USAID workers on leave
A federal judge on Thursday extended for one week a pause on the Trump administration's plan to put thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development workers on leave while he considers a lawsuit by government employee unions.
Judge extends stay of Trump order that would pull most USAID staffers off the job
A court order halting the Trump administration's plans to pull all but a fraction of USAID staffers off the job worldwide will stay in place for at least another week.
Judge seeks assurances USAID workers won't be stranded overseas
A federal judge extended a pause for another week barring the Trump administration from placing thousands of foreign service workers on administrative leave.
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USAID shutdown would halt research grants to state universities
This story originally appeared on Stateline. If the Trump administration succeeds in shutting down the federal United States ...
USAID Worker Forced to Abandon Dog After Trump Cuts
A U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) worker said in a new legal filing that he was forced to abandon his dog ...
Trump's dismantling of USAID strands oxygen, HIV drugs in transit, contractors say
Hundreds of millions of dollars of life-saving medical supplies are stranded in warehouses and on ships around the world due ...
Is USAID filled with rats (or human equivalent)? Unlikely.
Instead, the whole agency, which is inarguably doing good things, is being dismantled. It’s like removing your whole ...
14 states sue Musk and Trump, calling billionaire’s role unconstitutional
Fourteen states sued Elon Musk, his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and President Trump on Thursday, arguing that ...
‘Mafia Takeover’: Ex-GOP USAID Leader Slams Elon Musk
Former USAID deputy leader James Kunder slammed Elon Musk’s “mafia takeover” of USAID on Christiane Amanpour’s CNN show on ...
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No, USAID did not fund sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
AAP FactCheck - Late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein did not receive hundreds of thousands of dollars from a US government aid ...
Current and former USAID employees sue Musk
Current and former employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) sued Elon Musk and his cost-cutting ...
Trump USAID cuts create vacuums of food, medical care for vulnerable populations
President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk's plans to shut down parts of the government continue to expand, placing ...
USAID IG fired day after report critical of impacts of Trump administration’s dismantling of the agency
The inspector general of the US Agency for International Development was fired on Tuesday, a day after his office released a ...