A Washington federal judge lifted a temporary pause on the Trump administration’s plan to place 2,200 US Agency for International Development workers on leave on Friday.

Judge Carl J. Nichols declined to extend the temporary restraining order he implemented on Feb. 7, according to an opinion filed with the US District Court for the District of Columbia. The injunction had also temporarily suspended efforts to recall USAID staff from overseas.

The unions representing the USAID workers haven’t demonstrated that they or their members will suffer irreparable injury; that their claims are likely to succeed on the merits; or that the ...