Supreme Court allows Trump to pause billions in foreign aid for now

The Supreme Court sided with the administration of President Donald Trump on Tuesday overturning a lower court s stay on the administration s freeze on billions in foreign aid Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office that paused the distribution of foreign aid money appropriated by Congress As part of his wider plan to slash federal spending Trump deemed the foreign aid payouts on global wellbeing programs and HIV AIDS prevention wasteful and ordered his administration to halt the payouts via the State Department and USAID US District Court Judge Amir Ali discovered that the order usurp ed Congress s special authority over the country s budget The D C Court of Appeals failed to overturn the stay leaving the Trump admin responsible for billion in unspent aid appropriations That funding needed to be distributed before the current federal budget comes to an end on September The Trump administration appealed to the Supreme Court for an crisis intervention and the Supreme Court granted it Chief Justice John Roberts issued an administrative stay which paused the lower court s orders to give his own court time to consider the event Related GOP s foreign aid vote will cost lives and they don t care Democrats in Congress alleged earlier this year that Trump s foreign aid freeze has withheld over billion in funding approved by the legislature In March the Supreme Court ruled that Trump must distribute another billion in foreign aid funding he had attempted to freeze Conservative Justices Samuel Alito Brett Kavanaugh Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas dissented on that ruling with Alito writing for the minority Start your day with essential news from Salon Sign up for our free morning newsletter Crash Program The establishment must apparently pay the billion posthaste not because the law requires it but purely because a district judge so ordered Alito wrote As the nation s highest court we have a duty to ensure that the power entrusted to federal judges by the Constitution is not abused In current times the court fails to carry out that responsibility Read more about this topic Time for it to die Musk takes over USAID in bid to destroy the agency with Trump s full promotion Death sexual violence and human trafficking The global fallout from killing USAID From dread to action Tracking the Trump-Musk death toll from cuts to USAID The post Supreme Court allows Trump to pause billions in foreign aid for now appeared first on Salon com