SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts orders pause on block of Trump foreign aid halt

Until now, the U.S. Supreme Court has stayed relatively quiet regarding the controversies surrounding lower judges and their blocks on President Donald Trump's executive orders.

Chief Justice John Roberts appears to have had enough of that silence, and he decided to use his power to help Trump's administration continue to the work of cleaning up the corrupt federal government.

For years, federal government employees have been overpaid and underworked, collecting paychecks that come straight out of the pockets of American taxpayers.

When Trump vowed to get America's budget under control, limiting frivolous federal spending instigated by liberals seemed like a good place to start.

You can guess how the liberals in America felt about that.

Left-leaning politicians and judges alike have been showing up to make Trump's life as difficult as possible from the moment he took office in January 2025.

Many of Trump's executive orders have been blocked, but on at least one of those decisions, Roberts is giving Trump's administration its power back.

Trump had ordered a freeze on certain categories of federal spending, but a lower judge blocked the order in an attempt to make Trump pay foreign assistance dollars to contractors and grant recipients.

On Feb. 26, John Roberts stepped up and paused the lower judge's order, meaning that Trump's cancellation of the payments will stand for now.