The US supreme court has handed Donald Trump a temporary victory by overturning a lower court’s decision demanding his administration immediately pay for $1.5bn in work already completed on behalf of the US Agency for International Development (USAid).
John Roberts, the chief justice, issued an “administrative stay” late on Wednesday, removing a midnight deadline on the Trump administration to release the funds. The money has been frozen since day one of Trump’s second term in the presidency, when he signed an executive order halting US spending abroad.
