Trump administrator asks Scotus to continue freezing billions of USAID payments

Trump administration lawyers Supreme Court On Tuesday night, the judge was asked to stop the lower court’s injunction and allow billions of dollars in foreign aid expenditures previously allocated by Congress – a second time in about six months for the United States Agency for International Development funds were sent to the High Court.

The disputed funding was nearly $12 billion, allocated to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and owed before the end of the September fiscal year. Most of these funds are ruled by the President Donald Trump After taking office, almost immediately under the mantle of wider foreign aid and elimination of so-called “waste, fraud and abuse.”

U.S. Deputy Attorney General D. John Sauer told the Supreme Court in an emergency Tuesday that without the intervention of the High Court, the Trump administration will “quickly force about $12 billion in diplomatic funds” by September 30 or the end of the fiscal year.

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After President Donald Trump Signed execution commandR tried to block nearly all foreign aid spending on his administration on his first day in January as part of his broad crackdown on waste, fraud and abuse.

The order was blocked by a federal judge in Washington, D.C. earlier this year. The judge, U.S. District Court Judge Amir Ali, ordered the Trump administration to resume multibillion-dollar payments for the U.S. Agency for International Development projects Previously approved Congress.

The order was overturned this month by the U.S. District Court of Appeal, which ruled to evacuate the subordinate injunction 2-1.

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The Court of Appeal partially evacuated Judge Ali’s injunction and rejected the request of foreign aid organizations trying to restore grant payments. 2-1 Most also ruled that the plaintiff Failed to display Trump’s actions “clearly” surpassed his executive authorities.

writing mostJudge Karen Henderson, the president appointed by George HW Bush, said the plaintiff lacked the appropriate cause of action to sue the Trump administration for decision to withhold funds or so-called water storage.

But the Court of Appeal has not issued a task to enforce the ruling – which means, at present, The judge’s orders and the payment schedule he had previously laid out remain.

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Protesters held a placard at Pete Marocco, deputy administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and held a meeting with members of Congress on Capitol Hill on March 5, 2025. (Reuters/Kent Nissi Village)

Seal argued in an emergency Supreme Court appeal that foreign aid organizations prosecuted by the Trump administration in order to cut some of the granted currencies have no legal authority to challenge the executive branch on the matter, technically under the Seizure Control Act.

“Congress has not undermined the delicate balance of division by allowing unlimited, unrestricted private outfits,” Thor wrote. “Any lingering dispute about the president’s attempt to withdraw funds shortly before his expiration should be left to the political branch without being effectively bound by the district court.”

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On one hand, the plaintiffs believed that under the Point of Invasion Control Act (ICA) and the Administrative Procedure Act, the administrative department lacked the power to unilaterally withhold funds that had been approved.

The Supreme Court previously ruled 5-4.