A federal judge on Thursday temporarily extended his restraining order blocking the Trump Admin from placing USAID workers on leave. Last week Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee said he will halt a midnight deadline for USAID to be reduced to couple hundred workers. President Trump planned to drastically reduce the USAID workforce to a few hundred workers. Thousand of workers were to be placed on administrative leave. On Thursday Judge Nichols extended his restraining order until February 21.