By Ellen Knickmeyer and Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press
Washington (AP) – a federal judge ordered President Donald Trump’s government To temporarily lift freeze a financing That has closed our humanitarian aid and development work around the world and he has established a five-day deadline for the administration to prove that it is satisfactory.
The ruling of the judge at the end of Thursday called the financial destruction that the almost nocturnal conclusion of payments led to suppliers and non-profit organizations that perform a lot of American aid abroad.
The ruling was the first to dispute the financing of the Republican government. It is amid a growing number of lawsuits by groups of the government, auxiliary groups and government suppliers who ask courts to reverse the rapid dismantling of the administration The American Office for International DevelopmentOr USAID and American foreign help in general.
Trump and his assistant Elon Musk say that the 6-Decennium old auxiliary agency and much of foreign aid in general are not in accordance with the agenda of the Republican president.
Administration officers “have not explained why a general suspension of all congress that is allocated foreign aid, which was a shock golf and a built -up” contracts with thousands of non -profit groups, companies and others, “a rational precursor for assessing programs, “Judge, judge Amir H. Ali said in his decision.
Contractors, farmers and suppliers in the US and all over the world say that the financing of the Trump administration has stiffened them with hundreds of millions of dollars of wages for all work done, forced them to dismiss the staff and quickly brings many in the neighborhood of the point of financial collapse.
Farmers and other suppliers and contractors describe Fortuinen in non -supplied food aid that rot in ports and other non -supplied assistance that risk of theft with theft.
The judge ordered the administration to inform each organization of an existing foreign assistance contract with the federal government of his temporary stay. He suggested a Tuesday theadline for the administration to show that it had done this and would otherwise be complying with the order.
There was no immediate public response from the Trump government.
The judge has issued the temporary order in the US in a lawsuit filed by two organizations, the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition and the Global Health Council, which represents health organizations that receive American funds for work abroad.
In his order, the judge noted that the government argued that it had to be Finish the financing For the thousands of USAID tools abroad to carry out a thorough assessment of each program and whether this should be eliminated.
However, lawyers for the administration had not shown that they had a “rational reason to ignore … The countless small and large companies that should close their business programs or close their companies,” the judge added.
The decision also has the State Secretary Marco Rubio And other Trump officials to enforce Stop-Work orders that the Trump administration and Musk have sent to the companies and organizations that carry out foreign auxiliary orders.
The judge also rejected the argument of the Trump administration that it buffered the impact of the financing access, which offered exemptions to continue to allow financing to flow to some aid partners. He called a testimony that there was not such an exemption system yet and that the online payment system at USAID no longer functioned.
In a separate judgment in another lawsuit on Thursday, a judge said that his temporary block on a Trump administration warrant that would all but a fraction of USAID employees would withdraw from the track worldwide, would stay at least another week.
The American district judge Carl Nichols closely asked the government about how they could keep care providers abroad abroad, despite the dismantling of USAID through the administration. When a lawyer from the Ministry of Justice could not provide detailed plans, the court asked him to submit judicial documents after the hearing.
USAID employees who were posted in Congo until recently Encouraged explanations submitted For the lawsuit that the emergency agency describes, apart from them when looting and political violence exploded in Congo’s capital last month, so that they were evacuated with their families.
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