President Donald Trump’s administration asked the US Supreme Court to block a judge’s order that requires the immediate disbursement of as much as $2 billion in USAID humanitarian-assistance projects around the world.

The Trump administration is terminating 10,000 awards for foreign aid worth millions of dollars, including humanitarian aid, with about one-quarter of the deals, $57 billion, remaining, according to a court document.

President Donald Trump's administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to put on hold a federal judge's order requiring the government to pay foreign aid funds

District judge ruled that Trump’s blanket freeze on foreign-aid funding likely violates the Administrative Procedure Act and violates the separation of powers because Congress approved the money to be used in foreign-aid programs.

U.S. District Judge Amir Ali grew impatient during a hearing with a lack of clear responses from the administration’s lawyers.

A federal judge has given the Trump administration less than two days to release billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid

A federal judge in Washington on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to pay foreign aid funds to contractors and grant recipients by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday night, saying there was no sign that it had taken any steps to comply with his earlier order that the administration's freeze on the funds be lifted.

Judge Amir Ali said the Trump administration violated a court order about foreign aid and is ordering them to pay millions to nonprofits.

President Donald Trump's administration said in a court filing late Tuesday night that it "cannot" meet a federal judge's 11:59 p.m. Wednesday deadline for releasing frozen funds to foreign aid contractors and grant recipients,

U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan in Washington issued a preliminary injunction requested by groups representing thousands of nonprofits and small businesses.