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

A sharply divided Supreme Court Wednesday rejected a Trump administration push to rebuke a federal judge who imposed a quick deadline to release billions of dollars in foreign aid.

Drew Petrimoulx chats with The Hill’s courts and legal reporter Zach Schonfeld about the Supreme Court in a 5-4 emergency ruling Wednesday refusing to halt a judge’s decision ordering the Trump administration to immediately release nearly $2 billion in foreign aid payments owed under existing contracts.

A divided Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump can not freeze $2 billion in foreign aid payments, urging the administration to comply with orders to release the funds.

WASHINGTON -- Divided Supreme Court rejects the Trump administration's push to rebuke a judge in its foreign aid freeze.

The Supreme Court rejected President Trump’s emergency request to freeze nearly $2 billion in foreign aid on Wednesday morning, saying a lower court judge “should clarify what obligations the government must fulfill.

The Supreme Court just ordered the Trump administration to resume nearly $2 billion in foreign aid funding. Chief Justice John Roberts and Amy Comey Barrett joined Elena Kagan, Sonio Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown-Jackson in the Wednesday decision,