Judge approves Trump administration's slashing of USAID workforce

President Donald Trump’s order to cut thousands of jobs from the U.S. Agency for International Development will move forward.

After the Trump administration announced that thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development employees would soon be placed on leave and ordered to return to the United States in 30 days, various labor groups asked for a preliminary injunction to be issued.

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols has denied that request.

Judge Nichols has released a statement on his decision.

“Weighing plaintiffs’ assertions on these questions against the government’s is like comparing apples to oranges,” Nichols began.

“Where one side claims that USAID’s operations are essential to human flourishing and the other side claims they are presently at odds with it, it simply is not possible for the Court to conclude, as a matter of law or equity, that the public interest favors or disfavors an injunction,” he went on.

Nichols did not stop there, going on to discuss his thoughts on what the plaintiffs submitted to him to review.

“Plaintiffs have presented no irreparable harm they or their members are imminently likely to suffer from the hypothetical future dissolution of USAID,” the judge continued.

“And it is not clear why the speed of proceedings in the relevant agencies would be insufficient to address the only actions that have already happened and are presently ripe for review: administrative leave placements, expedited evacuations, and other changes to working conditions of the sort those bodies routinely confront,” he also said.

The president of the American Foreign Service Association, Tom Yazdgerdi, has released a statement on Nichol’s ruling.

Yazdgerdi called it “a setback in our fight to protect our members from efforts that threaten to dismantle USAID.”

“But it does not change the importance of their mission -- advancing U.S. interests and delivering life-saving assistance worldwide,” Yazdgerdi concluded.

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