Some organizations that implement programs for the U.S. Agency for International Development received memos this week saying the government must pay them.
According to the memo, obtained by Devex, USAID told its partners that the government must “not withhold payments or letter of credit drawdowns” — a method of advancing payments to federal award recipients — for work completed prior to Feb. 13. It’s unclear how many organizations received this memo.
This comes in the wake of U.S. District Judge Amir Ali’s order on Monday that the Trump administration must pay USAID partners for billions of dollars in international aid work, warning the president doesn’t have “unbounded power.”
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Sara Jervingsarajerving
Sara Jerving is a Senior Reporter at Devex, where she covers global health. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, VICE News, and Bloomberg News among others. Sara holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow. She was a finalist for One World Media's Digital Media Award in 2021; a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2018; and she was part of a VICE News Tonight on HBO team that received an Emmy nomination in 2018. She received the Philip Greer Memorial Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2014.
