All U.S. Agency for International Development direct hires deemed non-essential will be placed on administrative leave at 11:59 p.m. ET Sunday, according to an email sent from the Office of the Administrator and reviewed by CBS News.

The Trump administration said on Sunday that it is cutting 2,000 U.S.-based positions at the U.S. Agency for International Development, while also putting a majority of global employees at the agency on leave.

Judge Carl Nichols in a Friday ruling allowed President Donald Trump's staff reductions in the US Agency for International Development to proceed.

A federal judge has cleared the way for the Trump administration to pull thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development staffers off the job. U.S.

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols said initial claims that agency staffers and their families could be in physical danger proved to be “overstated.”

The judge said the Trump administration’s latest statement contradicted a “crystal clear” understanding about how overseas government workers would be treated.

The Trump administration said in a court filing late Tuesday night that it is not disbursing funds for thousands of foreign aid contracts and grants despite a federal judge's order last week to lift a widespread freeze on foreign aid funding.