FLASH
Shkruar nga Pamfleti
The US Supreme Court has partially rejected President Donald Trump's executive order to urgently block all US aid funds abroad.
By a 5-4 vote, the court ruled to free up nearly $2 billion in aid for work that had already been done by various nonprofits and businesses.
This is a short-term loss for President Donald Trump's administration, as the nonprofit groups and businesses that sued are still waiting for the money the US owes them for work performed.
It is the second time that the new administration has sought and failed to persuade the Supreme Court to immediately restrain a lower court judge in legal battles over actions taken by Trump.
The court has sought clarification of what obligations the government must fulfill to ensure compliance with the temporary restraining order, taking into account the possibility of any compliance deadline.
The Trump administration has argued that the situation has changed because it replaced a blanket spending freeze with individualized determinations that led to the cancellation of 5,800 U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) contracts and 4,100 other State Department grants totaling about $60 billion in aid.
The federal government froze foreign aid after an executive order from Trump targeting what he called wasteful programs that do not correspond to his foreign policy goals.
The ensuing lawsuit alleged that the pause violates federal law and has shut off funding for even the most urgent life-saving programs abroad.
The judge ordered the funds temporarily reinstated on February 13, but nearly two weeks later he found that the government was showing no signs of complying and set a deadline to release payment for work already completed.
Lini një Përgjigje