{"id":34553,"date":"2025-02-27T14:08:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/supreme-court-hands-trump-first-win-over-1-5bn-usaid-payment-freeze\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T14:08:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:08:30","slug":"supreme-court-hands-trump-first-win-over-1-5bn-usaid-payment-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/supreme-court-hands-trump-first-win-over-1-5bn-usaid-payment-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme court hands Trump first win over $1.5bn USAid payment freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Roberts removes deadline set by lower court to release funds to pay for work already completed on agency\u2019s behalf<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/feb\/27\/donald-trump-cuts-elon-musk-keir-starmer-ukraine-latest-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US supreme court has handed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> a temporary victory by overturning a lower court\u2019s decision demanding his administration immediately pay for $1.5bn in work already completed on behalf of the US Agency for International Development (USAid).<\/p>\n<p>John Roberts, the chief justice, issued an \u201cadministrative stay\u201d late on Wednesday, removing a midnight deadline on the Trump administration to release the funds. The money has been frozen since day one of Trump\u2019s second term in the presidency, when he signed an executive order halting US spending abroad.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/27\/supreme-court-trump-usaid-payments\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Roberts removes deadline set by lower court to release funds to pay for work already completed on agency\u2019s behalf US politics live \u2013 latest updates The US supreme court has handed Donald Trump a temporary victory by overturning a lower court\u2019s decision demanding his administration immediately pay for $1.5bn in work already completed on &#8230; <a title=\"Supreme court hands Trump first win over $1.5bn USAid payment freeze\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/supreme-court-hands-trump-first-win-over-1-5bn-usaid-payment-freeze\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Supreme court hands Trump first win over $1.5bn USAid payment freeze\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}