Groups working with USAID say the government still has not paid what it owes for their work

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Source: Scripps News

Posted 9:31 PM, Mar 11, 2025 and last updated 9:33 PM, Mar 11, 2025


On a Thursday evening in Washington, D.C. more than a dozen lawyers sat inside a courtroom at the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Court House for hearing in front of Judge Amir H. Ali. After a four-hour long proceeding, judge Ali issued a directive. The federal government had four days to pay plaintiff organizations that had sued the federal government for money they say they were owned. Organizations say they were owed a combined $2 billion for work that had already been completed.

The story began when the Trump administration announced an executive order with the intended goal of dismantling the United States Agency for International Aid, or USAID, an organization that focuses on humanitarian aid around the globe. The administration expressed concerns about how U.S. dollars were being spent abroad. The administration said it reserved the right to review, then cut-off spending in cases it deems fit.

But several organizations that worked directly with USAID sued. They argued in court that the abrupt closure of programs and cut in funding caused irreparable harm to workers and vulnerable people who relied on their services. The organizations also petitioned a court to force the federal government to pay those organizations for work they’d already completed, but did not receive payments for.

On that Thursday evening inside the federal courthouse, the petitioners got their wish, and Judge Ali gave the federal government an order: All payments for work that organizations completed prior to February 13, 2025, must be paid by March 10, 2025 at 6 p.m. But the deadline has come and gone, and while some organizations have received sizable payments from the federal government, Scripps News has learned other organizations have received little or no money at all.

Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/president-trumps-first-100-days/groups-working-with-usaid-say-the-government-still-has-not-paid-what-it-owes-for-their-work

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1. Turnip has NEVER believed in paying his bills. Why would anyone expect him to change now ?

He's always been a deadbeat. Now he's a deadbeat pResident, making the US the biggest deadbeat country in the world.

[Bengus81]

2. LOL....Trump still fucking over farmers that voted for him three times

I'd like to feel sorry for them but.............

[NotHardly]

3. Is the Judge brave enough to hold them in contempt, or another coward?

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4. Beyond anything else that appears to be a constitutional crisis,

this IS a constitutional crisis. The Executive office is the one to enforce the paying of monies deemed necessary by the Congress. If the office tasked with paying the money won't pay the money, what do you do to enforce it if you're the judiciary branch? Brand them with contempt. Meaning what? The government has to pay a fine (which comes out of OUR money... not theirs), throw someone in jail... who?

The constitution doesn't have a provision which declares what a judge can actually do to MAKE the government do as it is suppose to do, but rather turns its back while giving you the finger. The founding fathers assumed being elected would be an elite enough office that no no-goodnik would get in and trash it. Funny how those "assumptions" work...

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5. So SOME of the orgs have been paid...

...but SOME have not. Somewhat misleading headline.

Still should be unacceptable to the judge, but what can he do?