With immediate aid still held up and future food procurements in limbo, a former USAID official warns of “a global catastrophe.”

Foreign aid isn’t just charity. It’s power. That was the original idea behind the United States Agency for International Development, which J.F.K. set up in the early 1960s to win the support of developing countries that might have otherwise drifted into the Soviet sphere.

The judge declined to hold the administration in contempt as it recognized that "'prompt compliance with the order' is required."