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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ellen Knickmeyer and Lindsay Whitehurst

Trump administration is flouting an order to temporarily lift a freeze on foreign aid, judge says

The Trump administration has kept withholding foreign aid despite a court order and must at least temporarily restore the funding to programs worldwide, a federal judge said Thursday.

Judge Amir H. Ali declined a request by nonprofit groups doing business with the U.S. Agency for International Development to find Trump administration officials in contempt of his order, however.

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