Posted on 02/15/2025 6:24:14 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump's administration to temporarily lift a funding freeze that has shut down U.S. humanitarian aid and development work around the world, and he has set a five-day deadline for the administration to prove it's complying.
The judge's ruling late Thursday cited the financial devastation that the near-overnight cutoff of payments has caused suppliers and nonprofits that carry out much of U.S. aid overseas.
The ruling was the first to challenge the Republican administration's funding freeze. It comes amid a growing number of lawsuits by government employees' groups, aid groups and government suppliers asking courts to roll back the administration's fast-paced dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, and U.S. foreign assistance overall.
Trump and his aide Elon Musk say the 6-decade-old aid agency and much of foreign assistance overall is out of line with the Republican president's agenda.
Administration officials “have not offered any explanation for why a blanket suspension of all congressionally appropriated foreign aid, which set off a shockwave and upended” contracts with thousands of nonprofit groups, businesses and others, “was a rational precursor to reviewing programs,” Judge Amir H. Ali said in his ruling.
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Trump and Musk need to take a page out of Pedo Joe’s book. Tell the black-robe stooge to go take a flying leap at a rolling donut. They never did anything to the molester, surely they won’t try to pull any shenanigans with Trump and Musk. They will fire the freak.
As dems would do, ignore and carry on.
So exactly HOW does this POS judge expect to enforce this ruling??
Judge Amir Ali. Are you kidding me? When did America go full Middle Eastern camel jockey? Americans need to put on their big boy pants and run these creeps off. Putting them in charge of our courts makes the world think that we are all on opioids.
I’m setting a five-day-deadline for this PopUp Judge to suck my ass.
That’s fine. Every current recipient gets $1.00 a year. Two rolls of pennies
Is he a Muslim Judge?
This is BS. Their are processes during contract or grant cancellation to get paid for the legitimate costs of contract or grant termination.
Rock On Laz!
I’m in full agreement.
District Judge Amir H. Ali
Judge Amir H. Ali was appointed to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on December 2, 2024. Judge Ali received his Bachelor’s in Software Engineering from the University of Waterloo and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School.
After law school, Judge Ali clerked for the Honorable Raymond C. Fisher of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for the Honorable Marshall Rothstein of the Supreme Court of Canada.
LOL. I like that idea.
Trump can’t fire anyone can’t shutdown anything and can’t cut spending say these insane judges so it’s a country run into the ground by judges
At current copper prices iirc 100 pennies is worth about $1.40.
These judges are crawling out from under rocks everywhere
This judge is an idiot. Cutting payments is the point. As a tax payer I don't support saving the world when our own country and population has unmet challenges.
Cool. Harvard is where he screwed up. They liberalized him. He lived in Canada too? Geez. Sounds like another Kamalala Harris.
Was it a real judge, or was it a DemocRAT judge?
So, what has that got to do with him.?? Is he some kind of "Financial Advisor".??
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