The Divided Supreme Court restores the order that requires the Trump administration to issue frozen foreign aid

On Wednesday, a supreme court abruptly divided has restored a lower order for the Trump administration to release frozen foreign aid, but it was not clear how quickly the money would have started to flow.

With a 5-4 vote, the Court rejected an emergency appeal from the Republican Administration, also telling the US district judge Amir Ali to clarify its previous order that required the rapid liberation of almost $ 2 billion in aid for the work that had already been carried out.

Although the result is a short -term loss for the administration of President Donald Trump, the non -profit groups and the companies that have caused are still waiting for the money they say they are due.

One of the organizations of last week was forced to fire 110 employees, according to the court documents.

Judge Samuel Atito led four conservative judges in dissent, saying that Ali does not have the authority to order payments.

Attus wrote that he is amazed by the Court is rewarding “an act of judicial arrogance and imposes a sanction of $ 2 billion for American taxpayers”.

The action of the Court leaves a temporary restrictive order of wings that had paused the freezing of expenditure, Ali is organizing an audition on Thursday to consider a more lasting break.

The majority observed that the administration had not contested the initial order of Ali, only the deadline, which in any case passed last week.

The Court told Ali to “clarify which obligations must fulfill the government to guarantee compliance with the temporary restriction order, with due regard to the feasibility of any timing of conformity”.

The supreme judge John Roberts and judge Amy Coney Barrett, two conservatives, joined the three liberal judges to form a majority.

The judges Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaught have joined the dissent of breath.

The Trump administration claimed that the situation has changed because it replaced a freezing of general expenditure with individualized determinations that led to the cancellation of 5,800 US agency for international development contracts and another 4,100 subsidies of the State Department for a total of almost $ 60 billion in aid.

The Federal Government frozen foreign aid after an executive order of Trump, targeting those who called expensive programs that do not correspond to its foreign policy objectives.

The cause he followed stated that the pause breaks the federal law and closed the funding also for the most urgent programs for vital savings abroad.

Ali ordered the financing temporarily restored on February 13, but almost two weeks later he discovered that the government did not give any sign of conformity and set a deadline for issuing the payment for the work already completed.

The administration appealed, defining the order of wings “incredibly intrusive and deeply incorrect” and protesting against the temporal sequence to release the money.