Judge orders Trump administration to temporarily reinstate foreign aid funding

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Trump administration cuts US efforts to support democracy at home and abroad

In less than a month in office the Trump administration has simultaneously dismantled foreign aid programs that support fragile democracies abroad and put on leave federal workers who protect US elections at home in a move that current and former officials say abandons decades of American commitments to democracy.

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A US federal judge has provisionally put the flat-rate stop to foreign aid on hold.

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Judge sets 5-day deadline to unfreeze USAID funds

WASHINGTON — A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump's administration to temporarily lift a funding freeze that shut down U.S. humanitarian aid and development work around the world, and he set a five-day deadline for the administration to prove it's…

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U.S. Judge Orders Trump to Reverse Foreign Aid Freeze, Which Halted Essential Services Around the Globe

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore U.S. funding for foreign aid. Judge Amir Ali, a Biden appointee, said Trump’s executive order “set off a shock wave” for aid groups that relied on the money, which had already been appropriated by Congress. Lawyers argued the blanket freeze harmed both recipients of the aid and U.S. businesses and organizations that provide it, arguing before the court, “Businesses are shuttering, termi…

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Donald Trump wanted to turn off the tap of U.S. aid to foreign humanitarian agencies. A federal judge just banned him, believing that the administration had not provided any explanation of the reasons for the freeze.

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Report: How Jesuit Refugee Service is responding to the Trump foreign aid freeze

Halting the work of U.S.A.I.D. “will kill millions of people and condemn hundreds of millions more to lives of dehumanizing poverty.”