A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily lift a funding freeze shutting down U.S. humanitarian aid and development worldwide. Judge Amir Ali's order Thursday gives the Republican administration five days to show it’s complying.
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S. Agency for International Development on Monday, after Elon Musk and President Donald Trump made moves to dismantle the agency. The American flag flying alone beside an empty flagpole that previously had the flag of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, are pictured in the reflection of a window that previously had the sign and the seal of USAID, outside the agency’s headquarters in Washington, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. The door of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, is seen with the sign and logo removed from the wall outside of the agency’s headquarters in Washington, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. The U.S. Agency for International Development sign is seen outside of USAID headquarters in Washington, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. Priya Kathpal, right, and Taylor Williamson, who work for a company doing contract work for the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, carry signs outside the USAID headquarters in Washington, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. Taylor Williamson, who works for a company doing contract work for the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, holds an American flag as he stands outside the USAID headquarters in Washington, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. Protesters continued to gather outside the U.S. Agency for International Development on Monday, after Elon Musk and President Donald Trump made moves to dismantle the agency. The American flag flying alone beside an empty flagpole that previously had the flag of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, are pictured in the reflection of a window that previously had the sign and the seal of USAID, outside the agency’s headquarters in Washington, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. The American flag flying alone beside an empty flagpole that previously had the flag of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, are pictured in the reflection of a window that previously had the sign and the seal of USAID, outside the agency’s headquarters in Washington, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. The door of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, is seen with the sign and logo removed from the wall outside of the agency’s headquarters in Washington, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. The door of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, is seen with the sign and logo removed from the wall outside of the agency’s headquarters in Washington, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. The U.S. Agency for International Development sign is seen outside of USAID headquarters in Washington, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. The U.S. Agency for International Development sign is seen outside of USAID headquarters in Washington, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. Priya Kathpal, right, and Taylor Williamson, who work for a company doing contract work for the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, carry signs outside the USAID headquarters in Washington, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. Priya Kathpal, right, and Taylor Williamson, who work for a company doing contract work for the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, carry signs outside the USAID headquarters in Washington, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. Taylor Williamson, who works for a company doing contract work for the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, holds an American flag as he stands outside the USAID headquarters in Washington, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. Taylor Williamson, who works for a company doing contract work for the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, holds an American flag as he stands outside the USAID headquarters in Washington, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. that has shut down U.S. humanitarian aid and development work around the world, and he has set a five-day deadline for the administration to prove it’s complying. The judge’s ruling late Thursday cited the financial devastation that the near-overnight cutoff of payments has caused suppliers and nonprofits that carry out much of U.S. aid overseas. The ruling was the first to challenge the Republican administration’s funding freeze. It comes amid a growing number of lawsuits by government employees’ groups, aid groups and government suppliers asking courts to roll back the administration’s fast-paced dismantling ofTrump and his aide Elon Musk say the 6-decade-old aid agency and much of foreign assistance overall is out of line with the Republican president’s agenda. Administration officials “have not offered any explanation for why a blanket suspension of all congressionally appropriated foreign aid, which set off a shockwave and upended” contracts with thousands of nonprofit groups, businesses and others, “was a rational precursor to reviewing programs,” Judge Amir H. Ali said in his ruling.McConnell tests the strengths and limits of his power opposing a trio of Trump’s Cabinet nomineesContractors, farmers and suppliers in the U.S. and around the world say the Trump administration’s funding freeze has stiffed them on hundreds of millions of dollars in pay for work already done, has forced them to lay off staff and is rapidly putting many near the point of financial collapse. Farmers and other suppliers and contractors describe fortunes in undelivered food aid rotting in ports and other undelivered aid at risk of theft. The judge ordered the administration to notify every organization with an existing foreign-aid contract with the federal government of his temporary stay. He set a Tuesday deadline for the administration to show it had done so and was otherwise complying with the order.The judge issued the temporary order in the U.S. in a lawsuit brought by two organizations, the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition and the Global Health Council, representing health organizations receiving U.S. funds for work abroad.for the thousands of USAID aid programs abroad to conduct a thorough review of each program and whether it should be eliminated. However, lawyers for the administration had failed to show they had a “rational reason for disregarding ... the countless small and large businesses that would have to shutter programs or shutter their businesses altogether,” the judge added.and other Trump officials from enforcing stop-work orders that the Trump administration and Musk have sent to the companies and organizations carrying out foreign aid orders. The judge also rejected the Trump administration’s argument that it was buffering the impact of the funding freeze, offering waivers to allow funding to keep flowing to some aid partners. He cited testimony that no such waiver system yet existed and that the online payment system at USAID no longer functioned. In a separate ruling in another lawsuit Thursday, a judge said his temporary block on a Trump administration order that would pull all but a fraction of USAID staffers off the job worldwide would stay in place at least another week. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols closely questioned the government about how it could keep aid staffers abroad safe on leave despite the administration’s dismantling of USAID. When a Justice Department attorney could not provide detailed plans, the judge asked him to file court documents after the hearing.for the lawsuit describing the aid agency all but abandoning them when looting and political violence exploded in Congo’s capital last month, leaving them to evacuate with their families.Whitehurst covers the Supreme Court, legal affairs and criminal justice for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C. Past stops include Salt Lake City, New Mexico and Indiana.Plane carrying Secretary of State Rubio to Europe turned around because of a mechanical issueTrump signs a plan for reciprocal tariffs on US trading partners, ushering in economic uncertainty
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