Federal Court rulings against Trump Foreign Aid HOLDS has NOT Restored it…..

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday in a post on X that the agency had done a six-week analysis and was officially canceling “83% of the programs at USAID,” 5,200 contracts “that spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States.”

The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.

Two global health groups — AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition and the Global Health Council — and other partners had sued the Trump administration after the president issued his pause on foreign aid shortly after his inauguration, touching off a heated legal battle.

Ali quickly issued a temporary restraining order requiring all the funding to be restarted, but the aid groups accused the administration of flouting it, and Ali eventually set a Feb. 26 deadline to restart some of the repayments.

The administration asked the Supreme Court to block the deadline, but in a sharply divided decision last week, a majority found that Ali could enforce his order over vigorous objections of four of the court’s conservatives.

The majority did not detail its reasoning as is customary in emergency orders, but the dissent was furious.

“Does a single district-court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the Government of the United States to pay out (and probably lose forever) 2 billion taxpayer dollars? The answer to that question should be an emphatic ‘No,’ but a majority of this Court apparently thinks otherwise. I am stunned,” wrote Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh.