The Supreme Court blocks the order so that the Trump administration releases billions in foreign aid of the United States

By Ellen Knickmeyer and Matthew Lee, The Associated Press

Washington – The Supreme Court temporarily blocked the order of a judge that gave the Trump administration a midnight deadline to release billions of dollars in foreign aid from the United States.

The president of the court, John Roberts, said that the order issued by the US district judge Amir H. Ali will remain waiting until the Superior Court has the opportunity to intervene more completely.

Ali had ordered the Federal Government to fulfill its decision to temporarily blocking a freezing in foreign aid, ruling a lawsuit filed by non -profit groups and companies. An appeal panel rejected the request of the administration to intervene.

The federal government froze foreign assistance after an executive order of the president Donald Trump Aimed at what he called wasteful programs that do not correspond to his foreign policy objectives.

This is a last -minute news update. The previous AP story continues.

Washington (AP) – Trump administration said Wednesday that it is eliminating more than 90% of United States Agency for International Development Foreign aid contracts and $ 60 billion in the general assistance of the United States worldwide, putting numbers in their plans to eliminate most of the United States and humanitarian aid abroad.

The cuts detailed by the Administration would leave few survivors USAID projects so that the defenders try to save on what is ongoing. Judicial battles with the administration.

The Trump administration described its plans both in an internal memorandum obtained by Associated Press and by presentations in one of those federal demands on Wednesday.

Wednesday’s revelations also give an idea of ​​the Retirement Scale of the administration of the aid and development assistance of the USA. Abroad, and of decades of American policy that foreign aid helps interest to the stabilization of other countries and economies and the construction of alliances.

The memorandum said the officials were “clearing significant waste from decades of institutional drift.” More changes are planned in how Usaid and the State Department provide foreign assistance, he said.

President Donald Trump and ally ELON ALMIZCLE They have hit the stronger and faster foreign aid than almost any other objective in their impulse to reduce the size of the federal government. Both men say that USAID projects advance on a liberal agenda and are a loss of money.

Trump on January 20 ordered what he said would be a review of the 90 -day program program of which foreign assistance programs deserved to continue, and cut all foreign assistance funds almost during the night.

The freezing of funds has arrested thousands of programs financed by the United States abroad, and administration and government efficiency equipment of the administration and Musk have taken the majority of the USAID work personnel through forced license and shots.

In the presentations of the Federal Court on Wednesday, non -profit organizations must money in contracts with USAID describe both Trump’s appointed politicians and Musk team members who finish USAID contracts worldwide at dizzying speed, without time for any significant review, they say.

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Non -profit organizations, among thousands of contractors, owe billions of dollars in the payment since the freezing began, described the mass terminations as a maneuver to comply with the order to raise freezing of financing temporarily.

So did a Democratic legislator.

“The administration tries to fly in Congress and the courts announcing the completion of its” review “simulated foreign aid and the immediate termination of thousands of help programs worldwide,” said Connecticut senator Chris Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The State Department said that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had reviewed the endings.

In total, the Trump administration said it will eliminate 5,800 of 6,200 USAID contract awards for several years, for a cut of $ 54 billion. Other 4,100 of 9,100 subsidies from the State Department were being eliminated, for a cut of $ 4.4 billion.

The State Department memorandum, which was first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, described the administration stimulated by an order of the Federal Court that gave officials until the end of Wednesday to lift the Trump administration messages in Foreign Aid funds.

“In response, the State and the USAID moved quickly,” pointing to the foreign aid programs of the State Department and the State Department in large numbers for contractual terminations, the memorandum said.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to intervene on Wednesday night when an appeal court refused to raise the midnight deadline.

Trump administration officials, after repeated warnings of the federal judge in the case, also said Wednesday that they finally began to send their first or any payment after more than a month without known expenses. The officials were processing a few million dollars in subsequent payments, authorities said of billions of dollars owed for US and international organizations and companies.

Gary Fields and Mark Sherman contributed from Washington and Rebecca Boone de Boise, Idaho.