Good evening. I'm Ali Rogan. John Yang is away. Two courts have set back the Trump administration's

planned to shrink the federal workforce and reshape the U.S. government. This morning, a federal

judge temporarily blocked Elon Musk's Department of Government efficiency from accessing sensitive

Treasury Department records, including social security numbers and bank accounts of millions of Americans.

That came after another judge paused until next Friday, the administration's plan to place more than 2,000 employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development on paid leave.

It's a setback in President Trump's efforts to dismantle the global humanitarian agency,

which the president says is engaged in unspecified fraud and corruption. One of the two federal

employee organizations that sued to halt the administration's plans is the American Foreign

Service Association, whose members primarily work abroad. Randy Chester is its vice president for USAID.

Randy, thank you so much for being here.

We know that some employees have all employees at USAID,

got emails saying you should be able to access the system again,

have access to emails and everything you need to do your job.

But sources I've been speaking with say that they still cannot log into the system and they have no access.

Where do you think stand, as you're aware, and are the people running what remains of US aid right now, are they complying with this court order?

Well, so far, like you say, Allie, what I'm hearing is the same, that people are writing in to me saying they still don't have access to their systems, and the public-facing website now is completely

dark.

So I'm not sure they easily flip the switch and cut people's services off.

You'd think they could flip the same switch and turn services back on for us.

And you're going to have another hearing on February 12th.

What is that one?

What are you hoping to get out of that one?

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