A sharply divided Supreme Court on Wednesday denied an application from the Trump administration to intervene on a lower court order requiring that the government pay obligated funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The 5-4 decision effectively upheld an order from Judge Amir Ali of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that required the government to pay almost $2 billion in foreign assistance funds last week as part of a broader court fight over the future of the agency.
The case now heads back to the district court for more action, as the court has ruled after the deadline Ali laid out in his order already passed.
