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Judge rules Trump admin violated order to unfreeze foreign aid but declines to hold officials in contempt

  • A federal judge ordered officials to comply with a previous order to lift the freeze on foreign aid on February 20, 2025, but did not hold them in contempt of court.
  • U.S. District Judge Amir Ali criticized officials for using the court's order to create a justification for suspending aid funding.
  • Two nonprofit groups requested that officials be found in contempt, but Judge Ali stated that such a finding was not warranted based on the records provided.
  • The judge's ruling comes amid lawsuits challenging a $60 billion cutoff in foreign assistance, leading to financial distress for aid organizations.
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Federal Judge Orders State Department to Renew Funding

US foreign assistance to Eurasian states and elsewhere remains in limbo as the State Department pushes back on a federal court order to lift a funding freeze and resume full operations. Federal Judge Amir Ali issued a temporary order on February 13 to lift a funding freeze on foreign aid programs around the world, including USAID-sponsored operations. Since then, administration officials have not issued any instructions to implementing organizat…

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Judge Says Trump Has Not Complied with Ruling on Suspension of Foreign Aid - The Pennsylvania Daily Star

Washington Examiner   A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration has not complied in full with a previous order that halted the freezing of foreign assistance grants and contracts. U.S. District Court Judge Amir Ali issued a seven-page order Thursday saying President Donald Trump’s administration must abide by a court order to unfreeze foreign aid funding. He said his Feb. 13 restraining… The post Judge Says Trump Has Not Complied with …

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Judge Says Trump Has Not Complied with Ruling on Suspension of Foreign Aid | The Star News Network

Washington Examiner   A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration has not complied in full with a previous order that halted the freezing of foreign assistance grants and contracts. U.S. District Court Judge Amir Ali issued a seven-page order Thursday saying President Donald Trump’s administration must abide by a court order to unfreeze foreign aid funding. He said his Feb. 13 restraining order was “clear” and warned officials at the U.S…

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Judge Again Orders Trump Admin to Unfreeze Foreign Aid, Stops Short of Contempt

A federal judge ordered federal government officials on Feb. 20 to comply with his earlier order to lift a freeze on nearly all foreign aid, though he stopped short of holding them in contempt of court. U.S. District Judge Amir Ali said administration officials—including those from the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Office of Management and Budget, and their agents—had instead “come up with a new, po…

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Judge again orders US to unfreeze foreign aid, stops short of contempt - West Hawaii Today

A federal judge on Thursday ordered Trump administration officials to comply with his earlier order that they lift a freeze of nearly all foreign aid, though he stopped short of holding them in contempt of court.

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Federal judge orders Trump admin to comply with previous order to lift foreign aid freeze

A federal judge ordered Trump administration officials to comply with his order to lift a freeze on nearly all foreign aid and temporarily restore it to programs worldwide.

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