As we anticipated in the wake of last week’s Supreme Court intervention in the litigation over the Trump administration’s effort to slash foreign aid drastically, Judge Amir Ali — despite no small amount of chest-beating suggesting otherwise — has modified his demands on what the administration must pay. His new directive, issued on Monday in a 48-page opinion and order, is in line with what the State Department has already agreed to pay, at a pace it can tolerate (and which Judge Ali expressed openness to decelerating if it proves too taxing).
There’s no more “pay $2 billion within 36 hours . . . or else” — the essential substance of Judge Ali’s earlier order, which the Supreme Court, while not overtly vacating it as four dissenting justices urged, effectively gutted and admonished Ali to rework. (See our editorial.)
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