Supreme Court pauses judge's order for Trump to unfreeze USAID payments in first DOGE test for justices

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Source: The Independent

Supreme Court pauses judge’s order for Trump to unfreeze USAID payments in first DOGE test for justices

High court temporarily blocks judge’s order just before midnight deadline to restart aid payments

Alex Woodward
in New York
Thursday 27 February 2025 02:54 GMT

The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a judge’s order that requires Donald Trump’s administration to unfreeze roughly $2 billion in foreign aid payments..

On Wednesday night, a brief order from Chief Justice John Roberts said the lower court’s order will remain on hold until the justices consider the case.

Trump had called on the high court to intervene hours before a midnight deadline to pay up.

One day earlier, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. ordered the administration to reinstate funding for U.S. Agency for International Development contracts, arguing that Trump officials failed to comply with an earlier order to fulfill contracts while Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency-led attempt to dissolve the entire aid agency sparks global chaos.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-doge-supreme-court-usaid-funding-b2705536.html

Alternate link: https://news.yahoo.com/news/trump-calls-supreme-court-block-012303168.html

[Lovie777]

1. Heartless ...............

[AltairIV]

2. corrupt institution

Lets see what contorted logic they use this time to upend the constitution.

[alarimer]

3. I guess Roberts wants the end of the US also

I thought he at least he would care about the Supreme Court and would not want to be the one to enshrine a dictator, but I guess not.

Fucking fascists, the lot of them.

[lark]

4. Un(scotus) reich wing oligarchs strike again to help tsf destroy the constitution in favor of a dictatorship.

They think they will help rule the dictatorship, how stupid and wrong they are.