U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali, who is overseeing a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its decision to suspend foreign assistance, ordered the government on Monday to pay nearly $2 billion in outstanding aid to its humanitarian partners worldwide.

The federal judge presiding over a challenge to the Trump administration's pause on USAID spending, U.S. District Judge Amir Ali, is a new face on the bench appointed by President Biden.

Ali, who has been on the bench for less than four months, rose to national prominence in February when he blocked President Donald Trump’s 90-day funding freeze, becoming one of several federal judges across the country to strike down one of Trump’s executive orders.