The administration was ordered last week to continue the disbursement of foreign aid after Trump ordered a pause on nearly all U.S. foreign assistance. masse suspension,” Ali wrote.
The judge said the Trump administration has yet to offer evidence to rebut the charge that its blanket suspension of foreign aid will cause irreparable harm or that it has fully considered the implications the pause could have on interests that rely on the aid.”The Court stands prepared to consider such arguments and evidence at the preliminary injunction stage,” Ali wrote. “However, to the extent Defendants have continued the blanket suspension, they are ordered to immediately cease it.”
The judge stopped short of holding the administration in contempt.
A spokesperson for the White House did not immediately return a request for comment.
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Inside Cambodia: Impact of freezing US foreign aid
The day of his second inauguration, Trump signed an executive order pausing all “foreign development assistance” funding for 90 days. The order directed all federal department and agency heads to immediately pause new obligations and disbursements of aid to foreign countries and nongovernmental organizations.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, days after being confirmed, ordered an immediate stop to nearly all foreign assistance funded through the State Department and USAID.
The foreign aid pause case is not the first time of his second term that the Trump administration has been found by a judge to be in violation of a court order. Earlier this month, a federal judge in Rhode Island ruled
