Judge orders Trump admin to pay USAID partners millions by Monday
The big picture: U.S. District Judge Amir Ali's ruling during a case involving several nonprofits and aid groups including the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition and the Global Health Council comes one day after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to halt the lower court judge's order requiring the Trump administration to unfreeze some $1.9 billion in foreign aid payments.
State of play: The groups sued the Trump administration after it froze foreign aid as part of a DOGE-led federal government cuts and large-scale dismantling of USAID, which was the world's largest humanitarian aid organization.
Ali said Thursday he thought it was "feasible" for the first set of payments to be made by the Monday deadline, per the Washington Post.
What they're saying: Attorneys for the Trump administration said in a filing officials had worked overnight to certify some "$70.3 million in additional payments" to the groups, which were expected to be released on Thursday.
"It will take another day or so for those payments to be received vendors accounts," the filing added.
"It is currently anticipated that all legitimate payments owed to the Plaintiffs will be processed within days, and not more than ten working days."
Representatives for the Trump administration and did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment in the evening.
Go deeper: Exclusive: Oversight Dems open probe into Trump's USAID purge
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