The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump administration and paused a lower court’s ruling that Trump resume sending out billions of our tax dollars to foreign recipients.
U.S. District Judge Amir Ali, who was appointed to the District Court for the District of Columbia by Biden in 2024, had ruled that Trump must continue sending $2 billion of our tax dollars to foreigners. But the Trump administration had filed an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate Ali’s ruling.
Ultimately, on Wednesday, the SCOTUS agreed with Trump and said he could stop the payments while a lawsuit against his policy goes through the courts.
Ali had ruled that Trump had to resume the payments at midnight on Wednesday.
Per the Epoch Times:
The plaintiffs challenging the freeze told the judge that the government was slow in fulfilling the order, leading Ali to order the payments to resume by midnight on Wednesday.
In the motion, Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris wrote that the court’s 11:59 p.m. “30-some-hour deadline thus moved all the goalposts.”
“It is not tailored to any actual payment deadlines associated with respondents’ invoices or drawn-down requests, or anyone else’s. And it has thrown what should be an orderly review by the government into chaos,” Harris wrote.
She asked the Supreme Court for an immediate ruling halting the midnight deadline until the court can resolve the motion. Harris said the government couldn’t feasibly resume payments within the window of time given.
“Worse, this order exposes the government to the risk of contempt proceedings and other sanctions,” she said.
This is a huge win for the Trump administration and one more step toward the permanent end of most of USAID’s corrupt waste and graft.
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