Chief Justice John Roberts granted a temporary pause on Tuesday to a lower court order requiring the Trump administration to spend billions in foreign aid.

The administrative stay was granted a day after the Trump administration filed the request to the Supreme Court’s emergency docket seeking a stay of the order by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali last week, which ordered the spending of $4 billion in Congressionally-approved foreign aid. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declined to stay Ali’s order pending appeal last week, leading the Justice Department to petition the Supreme Court for a stay.

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