The order comes in response to lawsuits by organizations that contract with, or receive grants from, the U.S. Agency for International Development and

By a 5-4 vote Wednesday, the court rejected an emergency appeal from the Republican administration, while also telling U.S. District Judge Amir Ali to clarify his earlier order that required the quick release of nearly $2 billion in aid for work that had already been done.

The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts without the careful review it described in court.

A day after getting a boost from the Supreme Court, U.S. foreign aid contractors and grant recipients go before a federal judge on Thursday to try to restore funding halted by President Donald Trump's administration in his drive to shut down American humanitarian efforts globally.

The decision comes after the high court rejected a bid by the administration to block $2 billion in foreign aid and ordered the district judge to clarify the obligations of the administration to comply with the previous order to release the funds.

President Donald Trump’s administration got another constitutional crash course this week, with a refresher on the separation of powers in the USAID case over Trump’s foreign aid funds freeze.

Some $2 billion in foreign aid that the Trump administration had frozen must be paid out to humanitarian groups, a federal judge ruled Monday, adding that the freezing of those funds may have violated the separation of powers between the executive branch and Congress.