Justice forces Trump to reestablish the financing of aid

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A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to Immediately restore the financing of foreign aid programs and development of the United States and contractors who argued that they had been negatively affected by a general freezing of nine -day financing. The judge affirms that sudden freezing has caused generalized damage in non -profit organizations and other organizations that help carry out the crucial American help at international level.

The judicial ruling is an important setback for the Trump administration in its dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), with six decades of existence. The US president, Donald Trump, and the head of Tesla, Elon Musk, who directs the Government Efficiency Department (Doge), accuse the agency not to be in line with its agenda.

The Court’s decision of the United States District in Washington is the first to point to what aid groups have described as a sudden and absolute cut of the USAID funds for programs abroad.

Contractors, farmers and suppliers of the United States and around the world have been deprived of hundreds of millions of dollars for work already carried out. He has also forced large -scale dismissals. Judge Amir Ali issued the temporary verdict in a lawsuit filed by two organizationsthe AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition and the Global Health Council, representing health organizations that receive US funds to work abroad.

Ali said the Trump administration argued that he had to suspend financing Of the thousands of USAID’s help programs abroad to carry out an “thorough review” of each program individually, and decide whether to be eliminated or not.

Judge Ali was not convinced, stating that “(the Trump Administration) has not offered any explanation of why a general suspension of all the foreign aid assigned by the Congress, which triggered an expansive wave and put legs above the contracts with thousands of Non -profit groups, companies and others. ” Administration’s lawyers have not been able to prove that they had a “reason rational not to take into account the innumerable small and large companies that would have to close programs or close their businesses completely, “Ali added.

The sentence also prohibits US Secretary of State, Marco Rubioand other Trump officials apply the work paralysis orders that the Trump and Musk administration have sent to the companies and organizations that carry out orders for foreign aid.

Previously on Thursday, a judge in a separate case about The dismantling of the USAID Trump administration And the help programs of the United States abroad said that his order to stop the Trump administration plans to withdraw all but a fraction of the employees of the USAID of work worldwide will remain in force for at least another week.

The American district judge Carl Nichols ordered the extension after an almost three -hour hearing, much of which focused on how employees were affected by the abrupt orders of Trump and Musk. Thousands of humanitarian workers And the USAID runs the risk of losing their jobs while Doge, directed by Musk, seeks to continue cutting “unnecessary expenses” and prioritizing cost reduction initiatives.