Categories Selected Articles Judge pauses Trump administration effort to gut USAID’s workforce by thousands Post author By Mike Nova Post date February 7, 2025 A federal judge on Friday said he will pause a midnight deadline for the U.S. Agency for International Development to be stripped down to a few hundred workers from a workforce of more than 5,000. ← Foreign Leaders Embrace the Art of Flattery in Wooing Trump → Judge pauses Donald Trump’s plan to put thousands of USAID workers on leave