Alt 1 – Setting with USAID groups: the supreme court On Wednesday, the Trump administration’s request to ban the administration’s lower court order to pay nearly two billion dollars of foreign aid funds, saves the proximity of the period for international relief groups and contractors who seek to pay for previously completed projects.
In a decision in one paragraph, the court noted that the deadline on February 26 imposed by the minimum court has already ended, so that the court must now submit new instructions.
The court said: “Given that the deadline for the challenged matter has now been approved, and in light of the ongoing preliminary judicial procedures, the provincial court must clarify the obligations that the government must fulfill to ensure compliance with the temporary restriction order, taking into account the feasibility of any compliance time schedules.”
Last Wednesday, the chief judge John Roberts agreed to stop the minimum court decision that requires Trump administration To pay by 11:59 pm all the bills due to external relief groups, an amount of about $ 1.9 billion – a timetable that the Ministry of Justice argued was “impossible” to comply with it.
Roberts did not give a reason to agree to stop the matter issued by the American boycott judge, Amir Ali, who is appointed by Biden, although it was widely expected to refer the issue to the full court for review.
More importantly, the stopping of external relief groups from submitting a proposal from civil contempt against the Trump administration – a legal maneuver, said employees from groups affected in the interviews this week that they could accelerate their operation to return unpaid debt.
The demonstrators and legislators gathered against President Donald Trump and Eileon Musk, including the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development, in Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
In the case is the speed that the Trump administration needs to pay nearly two billion dollars due to help groups and contractors for the complete projects funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), while the administration issued a blanket freezing on all foreign spending in the name of “efficiency” of the government and waste disposal.
In new Monday court fileThe US lawyer, Sarah Harris, said that although the claims of the prosecutors “are likely to be” legitimate “, the time when the American boycott judge, Amir Ali, gave him to pay the due bills” not possible from logistical or technical terms. “
On Monday, Harris argued that it might be a violation of the authorities of the executive branch granted from the constitution to an elected president.
The Trump administration ordered payments on a timetable for the minimum selection of the court, and “without looking at whether the requests are legitimate, or even after,” Harris said, “Persons to the president’s foreign affairs authorities” and supervise the executive branch when it comes to distributing foreign aid.
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Volunteers in the Zanzalima camp for internally displaced people emptying 50 kilograms of wheat flour, which was part of the delivery of aid from the United States Agency for International Development in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. The United States Agency for International Development started providing food aid to the camp in September 2021. (J. Countess/Getty Images)
The plaintiffs, for their part, rejected this idea completely. In their supreme file in the court, they argued that the minimum court judge had ordered the Trump administration to start paying the foreign aid payments due for more than two weeks – a final date that they said that the government simply failed to fulfill, or even taking steps to meet – indicating that the administration had no plans to fulfill this request.
The Trump administration does not take steps towards compliance “with Judge Ali’s order, who asks the administration to freeze federal funds to pay $ 1.9 billion of project payments due. Submit the Supreme Court.
They also refused to confirm the administration in the court last week that it would need “several weeks” to restart the payment system.
Instead, they said that the Trump administration has moved very quickly to dismantle the regulations required to send payments to external relief groups in the first place – and to disinfect many of the US Agency for International Development who can facilitate the process of faster and faster payment.
“All of these bills have already been approved by the front lines managers at the United States Agency for International Development, and these bottlenecks created by the government itself” that caused the payment problems, and an individual science with knowledge of the US Agency for International Development and informed contractors affected by Fox News Digital in an interview.
Employees and supporters of protest meet outside the US Agency for International Development (US Development Agency) on February 01, 2025. (Kevin Lietsch/Getty Images)
The Supreme Court challenge comes as many external relief groups have already been stripped that filed a lawsuit against the administration earlier this year of the largest part of its financing. This is in line with President Donald Trump Declared plans to reduce about 90 % of the US Agency Foreign Agency for International Development, and to reduce an additional $ 60 billion in external aid spending.
The White House has not yet issued a list of contracts and grants for the judiciary or those that will continue. However, critics have argued that the sudden withdrawal of American investment and its presence around the world risk economic harm, reputation damage, and new security risks at home and abroad.
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Scott Gretak, director of the American International Transparency Group, said in a statement that cutting such a large amount of US foreign aid carries great economic and security risks. He said that eliminating American funding for some projects, especially in countries with high risk of corruption, can “open the door to increase corruption across borders, fraud and other crimes.”
This may create new obstacles for American companies that they seek to open or expand in foreign markets.
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