A judge says that the Trump administration has not followed through on its order to end the freeze on foreign aid.
After Trump put a hold on almost all U.S. foreign aid last week, the government was told to keep sending money to other countries.
A federal judge decided Thursday that the Trump administration has not fully followed a court order that stopped the freezing of grants and contracts for foreign aid.
Judge Amir Ali of the U.S. District Court told the administration last week to let U.S. foreign aid go out after hearing claims from government contractors who were against an order signed by President Trump that stopped almost all foreign aid.

According to Ali, a “blanket suspension of congressionally appropriated foreign aid” hurt the contractors so much that it could not be fixed. This was probably against the Administrative Procedure Act.
The government said earlier this week in a notice of compliance that the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development had looked over the thousands of contracts and grants that were cancelled because of the aid freeze and found that “substantially all” of them were legal under the terms of the contracts.
Ali stated that the government is not fully following the court order to stop the funding freeze, but is instead seeking new reasons to explain the large amounts of aid stopped, rather than continuing the suspension.
The judge said that the Trump administration has not yet shown proof that its decision to stop all foreign aid will not hurt countries in any way and that it has fully thought through the effects this could have on those that depend on the aid.
“The Court stands prepared to consider such arguments and evidence at the preliminary injunction stage,” Ali said. “However, to the extent Defendants have continued the blanket suspension, they are ordered to immediately cease it.”
The judge didn’t hold the government in contempt, though.
Someone from the White House did not respond right away to a request for comment.
Trump signed an order that stopped all “foreign development assistance” funding for 90 days on the day of his second inauguration. The order told the heads of all federal departments and agencies to stop all new aid responsibilities and payments to nongovernmental organisations and foreign countries right away.
Just a few days after being approved, Marco Rubio, as Secretary of State, told the State Department and USAID to stop almost all foreign aid right away.
This is not the first time in Trump’s second term that a judge has said the government broke the law. This time it was the foreign aid pause case. A federal judge in Rhode Island said earlier this month that the Trump administration had broken his order to stop a broad federal funding freeze. This order stopped both foreign aid and grants and loans in the United States. That break was ordered by a letter from the Office of Management and Budget, but it was taken back in late January.

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