Foreign aid groups ask US Supreme Court to require Trump to release funds

1/3/2025 6:05

Foreign aid organizations asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to require President Donald Trump's administration to promptly pay them for work they

already performed for the government, as a federal judge had ordered.



The groups - contractors and recipients of grants from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department - urged the justices to reject the administration's request to block Washington-based U.S. District Judge Amir Ali's order for the payments to be made.



In a Supreme Court filing on Friday, the foreign aid organizations argued that they "would face extraordinary and irreversible harm if the funding freeze continues," as would their employees and those who depend on their work.



The organizations' "work advances U.S. interests abroad and improves — and, in many cases, literally saves — the lives of millions of people across the globe. In doing so, it helps stop problems like disease and instability overseas before they reach our shores. The government’s actions have largely brought this

work to a halt," lawyers for the foreign aid groups wrote.