In a decision that left Justice Samuel Alito “stunned,” the U.S. Supreme Court denied President Donald Trump’s administration request to remove an order forcing the government to shell out $2 billion on foreign expenditures it tried to pause.

Shortly after Trump took office, a sole judge in the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., issued a temporary restraining order designed to hamper the administration’s efforts to cut back the United States Agency for International Development’s abuse of American tax dollars. That same judge grew so “frustrated with the pace at which funds were being disbursed” that he used an unappealable order to force the Trump team to pay $2 billion to various organizations in just 36 hours. …

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