A federal judge imposed a temporary restraining order on the Trump administration’s executive order freezing all foreign assistance funding.
Judge Amir Ali of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued the preliminary injunction Thursday, ordering a temporary end to the freeze on foreign assistance spending agreements that were in existence before Jan. 20 at the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The temporary judicial relief followed a Wednesday court hearing with a coalition of international development contractors and foreign aid nonprofits that had sued the Trump administration to stop enforcement of the freeze.
