A federal judge in Washington, D.C., set a Monday deadline for the Trump administration to release millions of dollars in foreign aid payments to U.S. Agency for International Development contractors and nonprofits who challenged President Donald Trump’s executive order freezing nearly all such funds.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday in a 5-4 decision ruled against the administration’s appeal of an order by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali, a Joe Biden appointee, that the payments, which reportedly total $2 billion, resume.

Ali said the Trump administration must release the payments by 6 p.m. Monday to pay the plaintiffs all the money they are entitled to on invoices and similar requests initiated before Feb. 13, Politico reported Thursday. Contractors and grantees who are not parties to the litigation are not subject to the Monday deadline, so the money they are owed will likely remain frozen for now.

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