A judge on Thursday examined arguments over President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze billions of dollars in foreign aid after the Supreme Court ruled this week that the lower court had authority to force the administration to make some payments.
Judge Amir Ali decided at the end of the hourslong hearing that the U.S. Agency for International Development must pay nearly $2 billion by Monday evening in outstanding invoices to various nonprofit organizations that sued the Trump administration.
Ali, a Biden appointee, said he felt that was a “feasible” interim resolution after hearing tedious presentations from the nonprofit groups and the Department of Justice about the Administrative Procedures Act and constitutional questions, including how the judge’s order might properly account for the separation of powers.
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