Trump Foreign Aid Frozen to stay for now, main rules of the United States Supreme Court

The main judge of the United States has given temporary support for the freezing of the Trump administration on foreign aid payments.

The intervention of the president of the Supreme Court John Roberts occurred when the administration faced a midnight deadline (05:00 GMT on Thursday) to pay the contractors.

The authorities had argued that they could not process the payments within the deadline established by a judge of the lower court.

Since he came to power in January, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has taken quick measures to end many help programs, largely administered by the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, and placed most of his personnel with administrative license or dismissed them.

The Trump administration is trying to reduce federal workforce and reduce costs in an impulse led by Elon Musk.

The billionaire advisor Trump asked millions of bureaucrats during the weekend to list his achievements of last week, which caused fury between the workforce and disagreement with the officials who lead the departments.

The US district judge Amir Ali had ordered the United States Department of State already USAID to pay around $ 2 billion of invoices (£ 1.6 billion) to the contractors at midnight on Wednesday.

It is one of the many interventions of the judges trying to stop or stop a wave of orders of the Trump administration.

As the deadline approached, the Trump administration went to the Supreme Court, arguing that it was impossible to process claims in an orderly manner in such a short time.

The freezing of the Federal Government of the United States occurs when the administration carries out a review of foreign aid funds.

Interine general lawyer Sarah Harris said the order of Judge Ali “has launched what should be an orderly review by the government in chaos.”

Usaid cuts have already altered the global aid system.

Hundreds of programs have frozen in countries around the world since the president announced their intentions in January.

The United States is, with much, the largest supplier of humanitarian aid worldwide.

It has bases in more than 60 countries and works in dozens of others, with much of their work carried out by its contractors.

According to the Associated Press news agency, the Trump administration wants to eliminate more than 90% of USAID foreign aid contracts, and $ 60 billion of US abroad. UU.