The case, brought by the American Foreign Service Association and the American Federation of Government Employees was intended to block the administration's efforts to dismantle USAID.

A federal judge temporarily barred USAID from putting 2,200 workers on paid leave after employee groups filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s authority to shut down the agency.

Dozens of employees at the Education Department were placed on paid administrative leave Friday as part of the Trump administration’s larger effort to rid the federal workforce of employees associated with diversity,

District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, sided with two federal employee associations in agreeing to a pause.

Environmental Protection Agency employees who work in the environmental justice and civil rights office expect a new round of paid leave notices that will impact even more federal workers, four sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

In an email obtained by NPR, employees at EPA's Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights were told they were on administrative leave, effective immediately.

The Trump administration placed at least 160 Environmental Protection Agency employees on paid leave Thursday evening effective immediately.