Supreme Court rules about nearly two billion dollars of USAID payments that Trump paused

ALT 1 – Side with USAID groups: AND Supreme Court On Wednesday, he rejected Trump’s administration request to block the lower court order to pay the administration of almost $ 2 billion in foreign aid, delivering a short -term refund for international assistance groups and performers who seek payment for previously completed projects.
In a single paragraph, the court noted that the deadline on February 26, which imposed the lower court, had already expired, so the court must now represent new instructions.
“Given that the deadline in the disputed order has now been adopted, as given the current procedures of the preliminary prohibition, the district court should clarify what obligations the Government must fulfill in order to ensure the respect of the temporary restraint order, with due respect to the feasibility of any deadlines,” the court said.
Chief Judge John Roberts agreed last Wednesday to stop a lower court decision demanding Trump administration To pay up to 11:59 pm, all outstanding invoices for foreign assistance groups, an amount in the total amount of about $ 1.9 billion – a time box that the Ministry of Justice claimed was “impossible” to adhere to.
Roberts did not give the reason to agree to stop the command issued by the US District Judge Amir Ali, the named Biden, although it was expected from the General Justice that the issue would refer to the whole court for an examination.
It is important that the break prevented groups of foreign assistance to submit a proposal for Civic disrespect for Trump’s administration – a legal maneuver for which employees from the affected groups said in interviews this week could accelerate their procedure to restore unpaid debt.
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Demonstrators and legislators are gathering against President Donald Trump and Elona Musk, including dismantling the US International Development Agency, at Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
It is disputed how fast Trump’s administration should pay almost $ 2 billion owed to groups and performers for completed projects finished by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), at a time when the Management Board issued a freezing blanket for all sides of consumption on behalf of the Government “efficiency” and removal of losing.
In Novi Court submission on MondayThe acting lawyer Sarah Harris said, although the prosecutor’s claims are probably “legitimate”, the time when the US District Judge Amir Ali gave them to pay extraordinary accounts “not” logistically or technically feasible “.
Harris also claimed on Monday that the order could be a violation of the authorities of executive branches awarded by the Constitution to the elected president.
By ordering Trump’s administration to make a payment on a lower judgment and “whether the requirements are legitimate, or even reach,” Harris said, “invading the president’s powers of the Foreign Affairs” and the supervisory authority when it comes to distribution of foreign assistance.
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Volunteers at the Zanzala camp for internal displaced people unloaded 50 kilograms of wheat flour, which were part of the assistance from the USAID Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. USAID began to provide assistance with food at a camp in September 2021. (J. COUNTS/Getty Images)
Prosecutors, for their part, rejected the term in its entirety. In their own Supreme Court, they claimed that the lower court judge ordered Trump’s administration to start paying owed payments in foreign aid more than two weeks ago – the deadline they said was simply not fulfilled, or to even take steps to meet – indicating that the administration had no plans to fulfill this request.
Trump’s administration “never took the steps toward compliance” with the order of Judge Alija, which has thawed the federal funds to pay $ 1.9 billion in the payment of projects, lawyers for prosecutors claimed themselves Submission of the Supreme Court’s request.
They also rejected the administration’s claim in court last week that it would take him “more weeks” to restart the payment system.
Instead, they said, Trump’s administration was moving too quickly to disassemble the systems needed to send payment to foreign assistance groups – and clean up numerous USAIDs employees who could make a smoother, faster repayment process.
“All of these invoices have already been approved by the front managers at the USAID, and these are truly the narrow throat that the Government has created itself” that caused repayment problems, and one individual with knowledge of payments and performers affected by Fox News Digital in the interview.
Employees and fans gather to protest outside the headquarters of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) 03 February 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
The challenge of the High Court is coming because many groups of foreign assistance that sued the administration earlier this year have already taken away most of their funding. This is aligned with President Donald Trump They stated plans for reducing about 90% of a foreign assistance agreement for USAIDs to reduce an additional $ 60 billion in foreign assistance consumption.
The White House has not yet published a list of contracts and scholarships scheduled for elimination or those who will continue. But critics argued that the sudden withdrawal of American investments and presence in the world risks economic damage, damage to reputation and new security risks, both at country and abroad.
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Scott Graytak, a director of the US International International International, said in a statement that reducing such a large amount of US side aid has significant economic and security risks. Removal of US funds for certain projects, especially in countries with higher risks for corruption, could “open doors to increased cross -border corruption, fraud and other crimes,” he said.
These could create new obstacles for US companies that want to open or expand to foreign markets, said Graytak, whose group has active chapters in more than 100 countries around the world, and could serve “as an invitation for US competitors, especially China, to be filled with Vacuum created by the absence of American engagement.”
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