Justices Allow Trump to Freeze Foreign Aid

“The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to freeze more than $4 billion in foreign aid for now, a victory for the president’s push to exert greater control over federal spending,” the Washington Post reports.

“The justices lifted a preliminary injunction from a federal judge who found the president had usurped Congress’s power of the purse by refusing to spend billions it had budgeted for food, medicine and development around the world.”

New York Times: “In its brief order, the court’s conservative majority said the president’s ability to conduct foreign affairs appeared ‘to outweigh the potential harm’ faced by foreign aid recipients.”