The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to not pay billions of dollars in foreign aid to USAID and State Department partners — lifting a temporary reprieve granted by Chief Justice John Roberts last Wednesday.
The ruling was narrow, at just 5-4, and the Supreme Court did not say exactly when the money — which is for work completed before Feb. 13 — should be repaid.
Instead, the case is now back in the hands of the judge who first made the order: U.S. District Judge Amir Ali, who directed the Trump administration to pay its partners nearly $2 billion in foreign assistance last Wednesday.
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Elissa Miolene
Elissa Miolene reports on USAID and the U.S. government at Devex. She previously covered education at The San Jose Mercury News, and has written for outlets like The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Washingtonian magazine, among others. Before shifting to journalism, Elissa led communications for humanitarian agencies in the United States, East Africa, and South Asia.
