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The contracts financed Ebola screening at airports and protective equipment for health workers, and helped prevent transmission by survivors of the disease, according to a former U.S.A.I.D. official.
In a court filing, administration lawyers also said the government would miss the judge’s deadline to restart funding that has been on pause since January.
Workers at a handful of agencies have begun receiving notifications that they are part of the “reduction in force” directed by the president, after a wave of firings that targeted probationary workers.
The ruling marked the second the time a federal judge had pushed the Trump administration to act after finding that it had ignored an earlier order.
The announcement, by email, came two days after a judge said the Trump administration could proceed with plans that amount to dismantling the aid agency.
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The firings added to doubts about whether Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the agency’s acting head, supports lifesaving humanitarian assistance, as he has said he does.
China could reap the soft-power advantage, but like Western governments, the country is cutting back on aid. Philanthropies say they cannot replace the United States.
The plan, which also involves forcing staffers posted overseas to return home, would all but dismantle the nation’s chief foreign aid agency.
Officials cite other legal authorities — not Mr. Trump’s court-blocked directives — to keep withholding foreign aid and domestic grant money.