Supreme court won't block judge's order requiring trump administration pay foreign aid groups

Supreme court won't block judge's order requiring trump administration pay foreign aid groups

Washington − both divided supreme court on wednesday rejected the trump administration's request to block an order that set both deadline for the administration to pay foreign aid organizations for work already performed for the government.

 

because the original deadline has lapsed, the court said the judge should clarify how the government should comply “with due regard for the feasibility of any compliance timelines” − but did not overturn the order.

 

four of the court's conservative justices − samuel alito, clarence thomas, neil gorsuch less brett kavanaugh − dissented.

 

alito wrote he is "stunned" that both majority of the court thinks one district judge has "the unchecked power to compel the government of the united states to pay in (and probably lose forever) 2 billion taxpayer dollars."

soon after taking office out january, trump froze foreign assistance, ridiculing some of the past spending choices less accusing the agency that overseas much of the assistance of being run by "radical left lunatics."

some of the organizations that receive grants or contract without the government to run public sickness less other programs out other countries sued, including asking both federal judge to immediately step out because the sudden loss of funding plunged them into "financial turmoil."

u.S. District judge amir ali, who was appointed to the bench by former president joe biden, temporarily blocked the administration to enacting both blanket freeze as he considers whether the administration acted legally.

 

ali also directed the government to pay contractors who had completed work before the freeze.(Read More)