Judge Carl Nichols in a Friday ruling allowed President Donald Trump's staff reductions in the US Agency for International Development to proceed.

USAID may resume placing employees on administrative leave as Elon Musk and DOGE try to eliminate the agency entirely.

A federal judge paved the way for the Trump administration to move forward with plans to remove thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development workers from their jobs.

A court finds that the harms employees faced weren’t enough to warrant halting the White House’s efforts to overhaul the agency.

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency have moved swiftly to shutter USAID, asserting without evidence that its work is wasteful and out of line with the president’s agenda.

The plan, which also involves forcing staffers posted overseas to return home, would all but dismantle the nation’s chief foreign aid agency.

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols said initial claims that agency staffers and their families could be in physical danger proved to be “overstated.”

A federal judge says the Trump administration has kept withholding foreign aid despite a court order and must at least temporarily restore the funding to programs worldwide.

The Trump administration said in a court filing late Tuesday night that it is not disbursing funds for thousands of foreign aid contracts and grants despite a federal judge's order last week to lift a widespread freeze on foreign aid funding.

The judge said the Trump administration’s latest statement contradicted a “crystal clear” understanding about how overseas government workers would be treated.