Forced leaves began in Washington and worldwide Friday for most employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development, as federal workers associations turned to the courts to try to roll back Trump administration orders that have dismantled most of the agency and U.

Both moves would have exposed the U.S. workers and their spouses and children to unwarranted risk and expense, the judge said.

Thousands of American USAID workers were put on forced leave Friday as President Trump plows ahead with plans to effectively kill the nation’s main foreign aid agency. Fewer than 300 officials at the venerable agency’s Washington,