TheSupreme Courtrejected a bid by the Trump administration to continue withholding billions of dollars in foreign aid.
Conservative Justices John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett sided with the liberal minority in the ruling.
I am stunned, he wrote.
A demonstrator holds a sign reading “Save USAID” during a protest near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 17, 2025.BRYAN DOZIER/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images
Alito conveniently ignored the actual issue at hand in the lawsuit in favor of partisan jabbering.
Stiffing contractors was acommon tacticof the Trump real estate empire.
USAID was one of the first targets of Elon Musks so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The agency has already beengutted of staffand ordered to stop virtually all work domestically and abroad.
Starving, sick, vulnerable families and children in desperate need of humanitarian assistance are left without critical support.
Were not counting on it, though.
