SCOTUS pauses federal judge’s order on Trump admin foreign aid funding
U.S. Supreme Court Judge John Roberts suspended a federal judge's order on Wednesday requiring the Trump administration to pay contractors about $2 billion in foreign aid funds by midnight. The ruling comes after the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court for an emergency order blocking the release of US Agency for International Development (USAID) funds […]
Trump administration goes to Supreme Court to stave off midnight deadline to unfreeze foreign aid
The Department of Justice submittedEmergency applicationThe Supreme Court on Wednesday called for the Trump administration to block the midnight deadline for nearly $2 billion in locked-down foreign aid payments. A federal judge set deadlines after the administration failed to comply with his previous ruling to resume the flow of foreign aid agreements and grants as […]
Supreme Court blocks judge’s order that would have forced Trump admin to release billions in foreign aid
The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump administration in a lawsuit challenging the freezing of federal funds from the U.S. International Development Agency. Temporarily the best court on the land It's blocked Orders from US District Judge Amir H. Ali until the court could become more heavily on the case. Ali had given […]
Supreme Court briefly pauses order for Trump admin to imminently release foreign aid
Secretary John Roberts temporarily delayed the midnight deadline as the Trump administration nearly freezes $2 billion in foreign aid paymentswas imposed by a lower judge who discovered that the administration had disregarded his ruling. The administration said it could not resume payments on the prompt schedule set by US District Judge Amir Ali to be […]
UK LGBTQ+ Charity to Cut Staff over Trump Foreign Aid Freeze: Report
The UK's top LGBTQ+ charities are reportedly considering cutting half of their staff as a result of US President Donald Trump's freeze on foreign aid payments. LGBTQ+ Charity Stonewall on the left and right is so dependent on money from American taxpayers that half of the 114 staff members have been forced to have foreign […]
Live updates: Trump praises Musk at first Cabinet meeting; DOGE panel dissects foreign aid
President Trump convened the first cabinet meeting Wednesday morning, more than a month before his second term. His right-hand man, Elon Musk, spoke first, and explained his role, and displayed his full influence on the presidential orbit. Congress is now rolling the ball with Trump's agenda in place, and on Tuesday night the House has […]
California college students demand the university remove financial aid barriers for illegal immigrants
University of California, San Diego students requested that school administrators remove barriers to financial aid for illegal immigration. “We're here, so the people in our classrooms live in fear,” one UCSD student told protesters. According to For UCSD Guardian. “Some students are unable to apply for financial aid or even campus jobs due to immigration […]
Along Thai-Myanmar border, Trump’s decision to suspend foreign aid is deadly | USAid
Wa Kra Poe, a 30-year-old refugee from Myanmar, survived about two weeks without dialysis after President Donald Trump stopped foreign aid. “She never complained about what she was going through,” said the husband of the Meila refugee camp along the border in Taimian, where the couple lived with their two-year-old daughter, Thaw Wah, thaw. I […]
UK suspends aid to Rwanda over support for DRC rebels | Rwanda
The UK government has announced that it will cease events hosted by the Rwandan government and will halt aid to East African countries over the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)'s progress by Kigali-backed rebels. The UK is also threatening sanctions against Rwanda, which supports the DRC's M23 rebel group. The group is fighting against […]
Britain Raids Foreign Aid Budget to Boost Defence… Very Slightly
The UK, which has been barely cutting NATO minimum defence spending of 2% of GDP for years, will attack foreign aid budgets to get a new 2.5% level, the government says. Just weeks after the UK government strongly criticized President Donald Trump for cutting the country's foreign aid budget in a freeze on USAID, Westminster […]