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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. granted the Trump administration’s request late Wednesday to pause a lower court’s midnight deadline for the government to resume nearly $2 billion in foreign aid payments suspended for weeks.
The brief administrative order, which did not address the underlying legal issues, will allow time for a full Supreme Court review.
U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali had given the administration until 11:59 p.m. to fulfill its contractual obligations and restart the payments to organizations whose work in impoverished parts of the world had been stopped since President Donald Trump halted such foreign assistance in late January.
Acting solicitor general Sarah M. Harris, the government’s top appellate lawyer, had
asked the Supreme Court to block Ali’s order, which she said had “thrown what should be an orderly review by the government into chaos.”
The lower-court order, Harris wrote, exceeds the judiciary’s authority. The government is “committed to paying legitimate claims for work that was properly completed,” she added. “What the government cannot do is pay arbitrarily determined demands on an arbitrary timeline of the district court’s choosing.”
Roberts gave the global aid organizations challenging the administration’s actions until noon Friday to respond to those assertions.
