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USAID employees want a judge to keep blocking Trump's effort to pull most of them off the job


Published on 2025-02-13 10:00:49 - MSN
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  • Employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development are asking a federal judge on Thursday to keep blocking an effort by President Donald Trump's administration meant to pull all but a fraction of worldwide staffers off the job.

The article from MSN discusses a legal challenge by USAID employees against former President Donald Trump's executive order, known as "Schedule F," which aimed to reclassify tens of thousands of federal workers into at-will employees, thereby stripping them of civil service protections. This order was intended to make it easier to fire federal workers, particularly those in policy-influencing positions. After Trump's defeat in the 2020 election, a lawsuit was filed by USAID employees to block this order. Although President Joe Biden revoked Schedule F upon taking office, the lawsuit persists due to concerns that a future administration might reinstate it. The employees are seeking a court ruling to permanently block the implementation of Schedule F, arguing that it would undermine the merit-based system of federal employment. The case is currently before Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who has issued a preliminary injunction against the order, and the employees are pushing for this to be made permanent.

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