The Trump administration informed Congress on Friday of its plan to eliminate nearly all remaining positions at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and close the agency entirely — a major shift that would end over six decades of humanitarian and development work.

The head of the U.S. Social Security Administration has backed down from "shutting down the agency" after a federal judge rebuked him for misinterpreting a court ruling that limited billionaire Elon Musk's access to agency information.

Adds comment from National Treasury Employees Union attorney. A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from effectively shutting down the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued a preliminary injunction to preserve the existence of the regulator while she decides on the