A federal judge temporarily blocked the enforcement of the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, ruling that the administration did not have a compelling reason to implement the freeze.
U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia Judge Amir Ali sided on Thursday with several government-funded global health nonprofits that had sued the Trump administration seeking to stop the foreign aid funding pause. The suit was filed over President Donald Trump’s executive order initiating a 90-day pause on foreign funding to evaluate whether the programs were in America’s national interest.
Ali asserted that the Trump administration had “not offered any explanation for why a blanket suspension of all congressionally appropriated foreign aid, which set off a shockwave and upended reliance interests for thousands of agreements with businesses, nonprofits, and organizations around…
