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A federal judge ordered Thursday Trump administration The officials will comply with their previous order to temporarily lift a freezing in almost all foreign aid, temporarily restoring it to programs around the world.
In his order, Judge Amir H. Ali, designated by Biden, said that Trump administration officials had used their Order of February 13 To temporarily lift the freezing of foreign aid to “present a new post-hoc rationalization for mass suspension” of funds.
Despite the judge’s order, otherwise, the Usaid Undersecretary, Pete Marocco, appointed by Trump and other senior officials “continued their general fund suspension,” said Ali.
Even so, the Washington, DC The Judge of the District Court rejected a request from non -profit groups that do business with the United States Agency for International Development to find Trump administration officials in contempt for their order.
Trump’s duxt remains on the way after a pair of federal judge failures
The flowers and a sign are placed outside the headquarters of the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, on Friday, February 7, 2025 in Washington. (Photo AP/José Luis Magana)
The Ali ruling is produced in a demand by the non -profit groups that defy the foreign assistance limit of the Trump administration through USAID and the State Department, which closed $ 60 billion in annual aid programs and development abroad almost during the night.
Even after Ali’s order, USAID employees and contractors say that the State Department and USAID have not yet restored payments, even in hundreds of millions of dollars already due by the Government.
President Donald Trump greets while walking from Marine One after arriving at the White House South Law, on Wednesday, February 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Marocco and other administration officials defended the default in the arguments written to the judge this week. They argued that they could legally stop or terminate payments under thousands of contracts without violating the judge’s order.
The Trump Administration says that all foreign assistance programs of State Department and Usaid are reviewing Case -in case to see which comply with the Trump administration agenda.
Trump’s duxt remains on the way after a pair of federal judge failures
Help organizations, current and previous employees of USAID in interviews and judicial affidavits, say that frozen funds and the purges of the deep Trump administration of USAID employees have taken us foreign assistance worldwide, forced them to thousands of layoffs and is taking government partners to financial collapse.
Archive: The CEO of Tesla and Spacex, Elon Musk, delivers comments while joining the president of the United States, Donald Trump, during an executive order that signs in the Oval office in the White House on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty images)
Directed by the efforts of the CEO of Spacex Elon Musk in the newly formed government efficiency department (Doge), the department has been what Musk characterizes as a crusade to reduce the government’s expenditure and the return of the Federal Work Force.
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Doge until now claims to have saved about $ 55 billion through cuts to USAID, the Department of Education and the Office of Financial Protection of the Consumer. But many of Doge cost reduction efforts have brought legal challenges.
Louis Casiano de Fox News Digital and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
