Judge gives Trump deadline for progress on returning $2 billion in USAID cuts

Published March 11, 2025 1:35pm ET



A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to pay nearly $2 billion in foreign aid to recipients and contractors for work completed through Feb. 13, and it issued a March 14 deadline to show the court how it plans to do so.

Judge Amir Ali of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order Monday arguing that the Trump administration was “unlawfully impounding congressionally appropriated foreign aid funds” through some of its proposed cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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