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A federal judge halted the Trump administration’s attempt to cancel collective bargaining rights for Voice of America and U.S. Agency for Global Media employees, ruling that Trump wrongly invoked “national security” to justify stripping unions. Judge Paul Friedman found the order retaliatory, pointing to Trump’s months-long push to dismantle VOA and prior attempts already blocked by the courts. Without the injunction, unions warned that employees could lose representation entirely and face imminent layoffs.