U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts has paused a federal judge’s order that required the Trump administration to pay out foreign aid funds to contractors by midnight.

The top judge in the United States has given temporary backing to the Trump administration's freeze on foreign aid payments. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' intervention came as the administration faced a midnight deadline (05:00 GMT on Thursday) to pay contractors.

Four sitting members of the U.S. Supreme Court are in attendance for Trump's address tonight: Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Retired Justice Anthony Kennedy is also present.

Chief Justice John Roberts, in an order Wednesday night, has stayed a lower court order that the administration pay out $1.9 billion by midnight

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday night paused a lower court-imposed midnight deadline to restart $2 billion in foreign aid payments after the Trump administration paused 10,000 awards.

Chief Justice John Roberts said the order will remain on hold until the high court has a chance to weigh in more fully.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with all Democratic appointees in telling the executive to pay those firms which

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to continue payments on $2 billion in foreign aid that had been frozen, overturning an administrative stay that Chief Justice John Roberts entered in late February.

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday paused a federal judge's order requiring President Donald Trump's administration to pay foreign aid funds to contractors and grant recipients.

Chief Justice John Roberts has temporarily halted a lower court order requiring the Trump administration to unfreeze nearly $2 billion in foreign aid.