{"id":183877,"date":"2025-09-26T22:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/183877\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T22:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:04:07","slug":"us-supreme-court-sides-with-trump-on-freezing-4bn-in-foreign-aid-donald-trump-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/183877\/","title":{"rendered":"US Supreme Court sides with Trump on freezing $4bn in foreign aid | Donald Trump News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lower court had previously ordered Trump to disburse the congressionally approved aid before its expiration date.<\/p>\n

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The United States Supreme Court has again sided with President Donald Trump in allowing him to freeze $4bn in foreign aid from being disbursed.<\/p>\n

The ruling on Friday, which reverses a lower court\u2019s order, is the latest victory for the Trump administration in its effort to overhaul the money the US provides to humanitarian and other efforts abroad.<\/p>\n

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It is also the latest example of the conservative-dominated top US court granting a broad interpretation of presidential power.<\/p>\n

The aid in question had already been approved by Congress, but its authorisation was set to expire by September 30. Trump moved to freeze<\/a> the aid in a process known as a \u201cpocket rescission\u201d, essentially running out the clock on it being spent.<\/p>\n

The funds had been earmarked, in part, for United Nations peacekeeping operations and democracy-promotion efforts overseas.<\/p>\n

On September 3, US District Judge Amir Ali ordered<\/a> Trump to disburse the funds before the expiration date. He warned that Trump\u2019s move raised \u201ca grave and urgent threat to the separation of powers\u201d.<\/p>\n

Under the US Constitution, Congress has the power of the purse, and there is little precedent for a president clawing back funds already approved by the legislative branch. The White House has said the \u201cpocket rescission\u201d tactic was last used in 1977.<\/p>\n

In court filings in the Supreme Court case, administration lawyers argued that disbursing the funding would be \u201ccontrary to US foreign policy\u201d.<\/p>\n

Trump has sought to overhaul<\/a> US foreign aid, cutting funding to the UN and largely dismantling the US Agency for International Development (USAID).<\/p>\n

The administration has framed the cuts as an effort to rein in spending while surging funding to domestic immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n

Critics have said the cuts undermine Washington\u2019s soft power abroad and could threaten US long-term interests.<\/p>\n

The 6-3 conservative majority Supreme Court has sided with the Trump administration in almost every case it has reviewed, often adopting a wide interpretation of previously untested limits of executive power in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lower court had previously ordered Trump to disburse the congressionally approved aid before its expiration date. Published…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,2302,12,16948,3,21,19,22,20,25,1209,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-183877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-humanitarian-crises","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-us-canada","19":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}