The U.S. Supreme Court has put on hold a lower court's order requiring the Trump administration to pay $1.9 billion to aid organizations for completed work. Chief Justice John Roberts issued the stay after the administration requested emergency intervention following a federal appeals court's denial of their request to extend the payment deadline. The administration argued that the deadline imposed by the district court created an untenable payment plan and raised concerns about potentially misallocating funds to entities that may claim insolvency.
What the government cannot do is pay arbitrarily determined demands on an arbitrary timeline of the district court's choosing or according to extra-contractual rules that the court has devised.
The order appears to contemplate the immediate outlay of nearly $2 billion. And the government has no sure mechanism to recover wrongfully disbursed funds delivered to entities that claim to be near insolvency.
This is not something that Defendants have previously raised in this Court, whether at the hearing or any time before filing their notice of appeal and seeking a stay pending.
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