In case you’re not already suffering from media/legal whiplash, here’s another story that may snap your head. As DOGE has been making efforts to streamline the government, and as the operations and expenditures of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have faced significant scrutiny, the Trump administration announced earlier this week that several thousand agency employees would be placed on administrative leave, effective 11:59 p.m. Friday.
In response, the American Foreign Service Association and the American Federation of Government Employees sued the administration and sought a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction of the administration’s announced actions.
A hearing on the matter was held before District of Columbia U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols on Friday, after which Nichols announced that he…
