This morning, the United States Supreme Court handed down yet another loss for the Trump Administration, siding against the Administration in an emergency appeal focused on nearly $2 billion worth of outstanding USAID contract payments that the State Department had been dragging its feet on.

The justices split 5-4 on whether to halt a judge’s order to restart nearly $2 billion in State Department and USAID payments for work that has been done.

Justice Samuel Alito issued a scathing dissent Wednesday after the Supreme Court declined to block a lower court’s order forcing the Trump administration to pay $2 billion in foreign aid immediately,