Trump administration hasn't complied with order to halt foreign aid freeze, judge says
The Trump administration has not fully complied with a court order pausing the freezing of foreign assistance grants and contracts, a federal judge ruled.
The Trump administration has not fully complied with a court order pausing the freezing of foreign assistance grants and contracts, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Amir Ali last week ordered the administration to allow the disbursement of U.S. foreign assistance after hearing claims from federal contractors challenging an executive order signed by President Donald Trump pausing nearly all foreign assistance.
Ali determined that a "blanket suspension of congressionally appropriated foreign aid" had caused irreparable harm to the contractors and was likely not allowed under the Administrative Procedure Act.
Earlier this week, the administration said in a notice of compliance that the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development had reviewed the thousands of contracts and grants it had canceled as part of the aid freeze and determined that “substantially all” of the terminations were allowed under the terms of the contracts.
In response, Ali suggested Thursday that the administration was not fully abiding by his court order pausing the funding freeze and instead searching for new ways to justify its pause on large amounts of aid.
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