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(WASHINGTON) — A federal judge is ordering the Trump administration to dole out millions of dollars to multiple nonprofits groups, determining the Trump administration violated the terms of a temporary restraining order issued two weeks ago regarding freezing foreign aid.<\/p>\n

Judge Amir Ali, a Biden-era appointee, excoriated Trump administration attorneys during a lengthy hearing on Tuesday over its failure to pay the groups for work they conducted prior to President Trump\u2019s Jan. 20 executive order, which froze all foreign aid for 90 days. Ali also signed an order to enforce a temporary restraining order he signed on Feb. 13, ruling the groups must be paid by 11:59 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaintiffs submitted evidence that defendants have not lifted the suspension or freeze of funds as the [temporary restraining order] required. Defendants have not rebutted that evidence, and when asked today, defendants were not able to provide any specific examples of unfreezing funds pursuant to the Court’s TRO,\u201d Judge Ali said after a two-hour hearing today.<\/p>\n

Lawyers with the Department of Justice acknowledged that the Trump administration ignored the temporary restraining order, which prohibited them from freezing foreign aid funds since the order was issued. Instead, they argued that they should not be required to pay back the money because of \u201csovereign immunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

During an extended exchange with Ali, a DOJ lawyer struggled to answer basic questions about the Trump administration\u2019s compliance with the temporary restraining order, which prevented the administration from freezing funds.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m not sure why I can’t get a straight answer from you on this. Are you aware of an unfreezing of the disbursement of funds for those contracts and agreements that were frozen before February 13?\u201d Ali asked. \u201cAre you aware of steps taken to actually release those funds?”<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not in a position to answer that,\u201d DOJ attorney Indraneel Sur said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re 12 days in and you’re here representing the government…and you can’t answer me whether any funds that you’ve kind of acknowledged or covered by the court’s order have been unfrozen?\u201d Judge Ali responded.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I can do, really, is say that the preparations are underway for the joint status report on compliance,\u201d Sur said.<\/p>\n

At one portion of the lengthy court hearing, Sur attempted to offer a legal justification for the Trump administration’s noncompliance, prompting a stern response from the judge about his order, the terms of which he said were \u201cclear as day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe purpose of this hearing is to understand and to hear arguments on the motion to enforce TRO. It is not an opportunity to re-litigate the TRO,\u201d Ali said.<\/p>\n

A lawyer representing the nonprofits who brought the case argued that the lack of a response from the Trump administration amounts to defiance of the court order.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat the court’s colloquy with the government has revealed is that the government has done nothing to make the flow of payments happen,\u201d he said. \u201cAs far as we are aware, there’s been zero directives from the agency with respect to the unfreezing of funds.\u201d<\/p>\n

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