'Government cannot just press a button': Trump DOJ blasts $2 billion USAID 'pay-or-else order'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : An emergency hearing was held last Tuesday, which led to the Supreme Court intervening by Wednesday evening after Trump requested an emergency stay.
50% : The Trump administration wants the U.S. Supreme Court to scrub away a temporary restraining order (TRO) issued by a federal judge late last month that requires it to cough up nearly $2 billion in federal funds -- related to contracts and grants formed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and State Department -- in what Justice Department lawyers are blasting as a "pay-or-else order.
44% : "The 36-hour pay-or-else order instead arose from respondents' contentions, on the evening of February 24, about a new emergency," Harris said.
38% : " More from Law&Crime: 'Choked out of its very existence': Judge fears Trump will dismantle Consumer Financial Protection Bureau completely before she can stop him On Monday, Harris argued that there was no feasible way for the federal government to comply with the $2 billion demand in the way it's been requested.

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