Most USAID workers placed on leave, Trump administration says

Most USAID employees will be put back on administrative leave by the Trump Administration beginning midnight on Sunday.

Some 2,000 employees will also be laid off in a "reduction in force" effort, the Office of the Administrator said in an email to employees obtained by CBS News, the BBC's American news partner.

The move comes weeks after President Donald Trump initially attempted to eliminate thousands of USAID employees, but the firings faced a legal challenge.

A judge had temporarily halted the administration's plan to gut America's foreign aid agency, but ruled Friday the pause would not be permanent.