A federal judge has temporarily blocked the plan of Donald Trump to force thousands of employees of the US agency for international development (USAID, in English) to leave their positions with an administrative decline.
The order was going to take effect before midnight between this Friday and Saturday and the ‘NBC’ chain has pointed out that Magistrate Carl Nicholsfrom the District Court for the District of Columbia, He made the decision After hearing the arguments of the Republican Administration and two representative groups of federal workers.
The government plan contemplated a decline for the 2,200 employees in the country and withdraw almost all workers abroad within 30 days. In fact, the vast majority of them had already received communication on the obligation to take advantage of administrative decline before 23:59 local time, although 500, according to a lawyer from the Department of Justice in the Court, had already taken the step .
The newspaper ‘The New York Times’ had advanced that in compliance with the republican leader’s guideline, Usaid was going to drastically cut its troops to the point of eliminating almost all of its 10,000 employees and saving only 290 positions considered “essential”.
The US Secretary of State Marco Rubioon whom it depends now Usaid by decision of Trump, had justified layoffs Not only for a matter of efficiency, but also as punishment for a “insubordination” movement Among the thousands of affected.
In an interview with the Fox chain this week, the head of American diplomacy said he had found that the employees of that agency were “totally reluctant to cooperate”, so there was no “other option” than to make decisions ” drastic “to put the situation under control.
The Usaid eliminate plan in practice was consistent with Trump’s announcement to cut the country’s expenditure on international cooperation projects, both through USAID and UN agencies or other NGOs. This meant a hard blow to cooperation in the world, because according to the United Nations US is responsible for 47 % of global spending on humanitarian assistance.
The layoffs were going to be very fast: those destined in the so -called foreign service were given 30 days to return to the United States, while interior employees were notified by a message on the organization’s website last Tuesday that their Low would be effective this Friday, something paralyzed by Judge Nichols temporarily.
Source: Lasexta
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