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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ariana Baio

Suspension of USAID funding by Trump administration likely violated Constitution, judge says

The Trump administration must pay approximately $2 billion in foreign aid funding, a federal judge said Monday in an order that blasted the administration over its possible Constitutional violation.

District Judge Amir Ali of Washington, D.C., said in a 48-page order that the administration was required to pay out contracts between the United States and its global humanitarian partners using the funds that Congress already appropriated – the second time he ordered the administration to do so.

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