{"id":217031,"date":"2025-02-08T12:04:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T12:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/donald-trumps-plan-to-put-usaid-workers-on-leave-blocked-by-judge-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T12:04:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T12:04:41","slug":"donald-trumps-plan-to-put-usaid-workers-on-leave-blocked-by-judge-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/donald-trumps-plan-to-put-usaid-workers-on-leave-blocked-by-judge-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s plan to put USAID workers on leave blocked by judge | | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/uZo6xWSkwvU\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\u2019s plan to put USAID workers on leave blocked by judge | | BBC News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uZo6xWSkwvU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>A judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from placing 2,200 workers at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on paid leave, hours before it was due to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Carl Nichols issued a &quot;limited&quot; temporary restraining order, in response to a last-minute lawsuit filed by two unions trying to save the agency.<\/p>\n<p>The order will remain in place for a week, until 14 February at midnight.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has argued that USAID, the overseas aid agency, is not a valuable use of taxpayer money and wants to dismantle it. 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