During the 90-day pause in foreign funding some critics suggest reforming the United Nations’ 686-employee Department of Global Communications, responsible for pushing the UN agenda worldwide.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration must follow a previous district court order and pay out nearly $2 billion in funds to nonprofit aid groups.

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 move came after Chief Justice Roberts temporarily paused a trial judge’s order requiring the administration to release more than $1.5 billion.

Chief Justice Roberts issued a temporary pause. Aid organizations said in a Supreme Court filing that they "would face extraordinary and irreversible harm if the funding freeze continues."

E NDING DEPENDENCE on foreign donors would not only lead to prosperity but also to “self-respect for our nation”. Thus argued Nana Akufo-Addo, then the president of Ghana, when he launched his “Ghana beyond aid” policy in 2017.

The justices split 5-4 on whether to halt a judge’s order to restart nearly $2 billion in State Department and USAID payments for work that has been done.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday denied the State Department's application to vacate a district court’s order to issue payments of some foreign development aid fu

The Supreme Court upheld a lower court order for USAID to pay $2 billion in frozen foreign aid, rejecting Trump’s bid to block payments.

Trump imposed a 90-day freeze on all foreign aid on his first day in office. Programs funded by USAID and other agencies were thrown into chaos or shut down entirely, including recipients of PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief.