Gary Grumbach, Lawrence Hurley, Megan Lebowitz
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The Trump administration said in a court filing Wednesday it cannot comply with a federal judge's order to release foreign aid funding by midnight, despite being directed to do so almost two weeks ago.
Lawyers for the Justice Department made the claim in papers filed to a federal appeals court seeking a stay of the lower court's ruling. The filing said that if the D.C. U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals doesn't pause the order, the government won't be able to make the deadline because it will take "weeks" to free up the money it owes.
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