Supreme Court allows Trump to withhold $4 billion in foreign aid

(NPR) The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to continue to withhold over $4 billion in foreign aid already approved by Congress.

Earlier this month, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. ordered the administration to release billions in foreign aid funds by the end of September — which the administration later appealed.

On Friday, the justices voted 6-3 along ideological lines to allow the administration to freeze the foreign aid funds. The court's conservatives said Trump's foreign policy authority outweighed the harms claimed by the international aid groups suing and suggested that the groups may not have the standing to sue.

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