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U.S. Supreme Court has denied President Trump DOJ’s request to suspend Judge Amir Ali’s order to unfreeze $2 billion in foreign aid funds.

On March 5, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, declined to allow the Trump Administration to withhold payment to foreign aid organisations for work already performed effectively upholding a lower court order by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali.

This ruling mandated that the administration promptly release nearly $2 billion in funding to contractors and grant recipients of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the State Department for past work completed before February 13, 2025.

The decision came after Chief Justice John Roberts had temporarily paused Ali’s order on February 26, 2025, just hours before a midnight deadline, to give the Court time to consider the Administration’s emergency request to block it.

The majority decision rejected the Administration’s argument that the judiciary was overreaching into executive powers over foreign aid ensuring that funds for completed work would flow despite President Trump’s January 20, 2025, Executive Order imposing a 90-day pause on all foreign aid.

Conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh dissented aligning with the Administration’s position that the tight timeline and judicial oversight interfered with executive discretion.

This ruling marked a setback for Trump’s broader policy to review and cut foreign aid allowing payments to proceed while the underlying legal challenge to the funding freeze continues in lower courts.
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