The Supreme Court on Wednesday night agreed to delay a midnight deadline for the Trump administration to unfreeze nearly $2 billion in foreign aid payments.
The Justice Department filed the emergency application on Wednesday, stating that it would not be able to meet the deadline because it would take weeks to pay out the money, per CNN.
“The court’s 11:59 p.m. 30-some-hour deadline thus moved all the goalposts,” acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris wrote in the application. “It is not tailored to any actual payment deadlines associated with respondents’ invoices or drawn-down requests, or anyone else’s. And it has thrown what should be an orderly review by the government into chaos.”