Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let Foreign-Aid Freeze Continue

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President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court to block a judge’s order that requires the immediate disbursement of as much as $2 billion in USAID humanitarian-assistance projects around the world.

The emergency comes after US District Judge Amir Ali said this week that the administration had failed to comply with an earlier order to lift a freeze on foreign assistance through the US Agency for International Development.