Richter gives Trump Administration two days to release billions of dollars from blocked foreign aid

Washington (AP) -A federal judge gave the Trump government less than two days to publish billions of dollars of US foreign aid, and said the government had not given any signs of this Almost two weeks old court resolution To make funding easier.

The lawsuit was submitted by non -profit organizations on the limit of foreign support from the US Agency for International Development and Foreign Ministry, which on January 20 of President Donald Trump was followed by what he was as a wasteful programs that do not correspond to his countries political goals.

Non -profit groups and companies that receive federal money for work abroad said that the Freeze violates the federal law and that the financing has closed even for the most urgent life -saving programs abroad. These USAI and state partners say that the administration has stiffened money to millions of dollars that are already owed and forced them to take tens of thousands of employees and to bring some organizations to financial ruin.

On February 13, the US district judge Amir H. Ali, at least temporarily, instructed the administration to flow the financing again to comply with their invoices. Despite the order, USAID employees and companies and non -profit groups say that they do not know any payments that have been enforced.

“I am not sure why I can not get an answer to this: if you are aware of a desolation of the payment of funds for these contracts and agreements that were frozen before February 13th,” the judge asked Indrane Sur, The government's lawyer. “Are you aware of the steps that have been taken to actually publish these funds?”

“I am unable to answer that,” said Sur.

The case was submitted by the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition and the Global Health Council, which represented health organizations that received US funds for working abroad. They had asked Ali to find the Trump administration in contemplation of his previous arrangement.

It is the second time that a judge found that the Trump administration did not follow a judicial order. The judge of the US district court John McConnell in Rhode Island also found this month That the administration did not have fully frozen federal grants and loans in the United States, even after blocking the comprehensive plans for a break for trillion dollars.