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The Trump Administration is set to put all remaining civil servants at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on administrative leave, a move that will impact thousands of employees at the rapidly-dwindling agency.
According to The Hill, the decision was confirmed by an internal notice from the Office of the Administrator, declaring that the move will go into effect at midnight on Monday. In addition, 2,000 other employees will be fired as part of the White House’s ongoing “reduction-in-force” (RIF) efforts against the agency.
President Donald Trump has not even nominated someone for the position of Administrator, the head of the agency; he has instead appointed Secretary of State Marco Rubio as Acting Administrator, further confirming the president’s plans for any form of leadership at the agency to be temporary.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols declined to uphold a temporary block that had been issued against the Trump Administration’s plans to fire USAID workers. Judge Nichols declared in his ruling that the USAID employees who filed the lawsuit had “overstated” the negative impact of potential layoffs.
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