Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let Foreign-Aid Freeze Continue (1)

President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court to block a judge’s order that requires the immediate disbursement of as much as $2 billion in USAID humanitarian-assistance projects around the world.

The emergency request comes after US District Judge Amir Ali said this week that the administration had failed to comply with an earlier order to lift a freeze on foreign assistance through the US Agency for International Development.

Humanitarian groups say the freeze is having a devastating effect, upending hundreds of projects, forcing USAID partner groups to lay off or furlough thousands of US workers and putting people ...