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A huge decision from Judge Amir Ali, meticulously reasoned and utterly scathing, finding that Trump’s foreign aid freeze is almost certainly an illegal and arbitrary abuse of power. He orders the immediate restoration of all international assistance. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Consistent with the reasoning above, it is hereby ORDERED that Defendants Marco Rubio, Peter Marocco, Russell Vought, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the Office of Management and Budget (the "Restrained Defendants") and their agents are temporarily enjoined from enforcing or giving effect to Sections 1, 5, 7, 8, and 9 of Dep't of State, Memorandum, 25 STATE 6828 (Jan. 24, 2025) and any other directives that implement Sections 3(a) and 3(c) of Executive Order Number 14169, "Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid" (Jan. 20, 2025), including by: • suspending, pausing, or otherwise preventing the obligation or disbursement appropriated foreign-assistance funds in connection with any contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, loans, or other federal foreign assistance award that was in existence as of January 19, 2025; or • issuing, implementing, enforcing, or otherwise giving effect to terminations, suspensions, or stop-work orders in connection with any contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, loans, or other federal foreign assistance award that was in existence as of January 19, 2025. It is further hereby ORDERED that nothing in this order shall prohibit the Restrained Defendants from enforcing the terms of contracts or grants. It is further hereby ORDERED that the Restrained Defendants shall take all steps necessary to effectuate this order and shall provide written notice of this order to all recipients of existing contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements for foreign assistance. It is further hereby ORDERED that the Restrained Defendants shall file a status report by February 18, 2025, apprising the Court of the status of their compliance with this order, including by providing a copy of the written notice described above. The parties shall meet and confer and file a joint status report by February 14, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. proposing an expedited preliminary injunction briefing schedule. AMIR H. ALI United States District Judge
February 14, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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#saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID

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Save Foreign Aid
Elon Musk reportedly spent $40 million dollars on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here are just a few ways we would’ve spent $40M: 🏈Purchased life-saving HIV treatment from American pharmaceutical companies to keep 1,060,000 million people alive for one year 🏈Bought enough emergency food aid products made in Rhode Island and Georgia to treat 800,000 severely malnourished children 🏈Slowed the flow of migrants to our borders by providing job training to 50,000 people in Central America 🏈Protected 30,000,000 football fields of tropical forest in Africa, preventing China and Russia from exploiting timber and critical minerals that fuel our world 🏈Saved the lives of 25 million children suffering from severe malaria. We think this one has value on its own but maybe Musk would disagree This Super Bowl Sunday, tell Congress to #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID
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February 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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In case you missed the speeches at the rally protesting Republican actions on foreign aid, you can catch the speeches here: www.c-span.org/program/publ...
#saveaid #saveusaid
Rally Protesting Trump Administration Actions on Foreign Aid
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February 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Chris Milligan at Rally to Restore Foreign Aid Now “Let patriotic Americans serve their country.” #saveaid #saveusaid
February 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Jeremy Konyndyk at Rally to Restore Foreign Aid Now “What is happening is a brutal and shameful betrayal… you at USAID represent the best face of the US abroad and you deserve better. You know what is being said about USAID is not true. If we lose USAID it is a catastrophe. #saveaid
February 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Bama Athreya at Rally to Restore Foreign Aid Now “They’re safer because of the work we do. And we’re safer because of the work we do. … We give people hope, care, courage. If you cut USAID out of the US government, you cut the beating heart out of our foreign assistance.” #saveaid
February 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Rep Jackson at Rally to Restore Foreign Aid Now “Forward ever, backwards never.”#saveaid
February 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Sen Welch at Rally to Restore Foreign Aid Now “We are going to fight for the dignity of people all over this world.” #saveaid
February 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Sen Booker at Rally to Restore Foreign Aid Now “This is not about left and right. This is about right and wrong. … All of us must speak truth to power.” #saveaid
February 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Sen Booker at Rally to Restore Foreign Aid Now “There can be no bystanders in this fight… We will not cooperate with these illegal acts” #saveaid
February 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Sen Coons at Rally to Restore Foreign Aid Now “Nothing about this makes us safer. … These illegal actions will be challenged… and will not stand.” #saveaid
February 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Friends, it's go time. We need today to be BIG because if they kill USAID they will take the sledgehammer to everything else. Eliminate agencies. Turn off funding to ANYTHING they want. Stand up at the US Capitol at 11:30 today February 5. #SaveAmerica #SaveUSAID
February 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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February 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM