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The Trump administration lawyers filed an emergency appeal in the Supreme Court on Tuesday night, asking Justice to stop the prohibition of the low court and allowed it to freeze the billions in the first allotted foreign aid expenses by the Congress – the issue of USAID funding was back to the High Court for the second time in about six months.
The fund allocated to the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has a $ 12 billion issue, and outstanding outstanding by the end of the financial year in September. Most of those funds were done soon after President Donald Trump took over, soon after taking over foreign aid and abolishing the so -called “waste, fraud and misconduct” was done immediately after taking over.
US Solicitor General D. John Sareer told the Supreme Court in an emergency filing on Tuesday that, the intervention absent from the High Court, the Trump administration will be forced to “faster some $ 12 billion in foreign-help funds” by September 30 or at the end of the financial year.
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Employees and supporters gather in February 2025 to oppose the funding collected to protest outside the US Agency for International Development (USAID) headquarters. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Image) (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Image)
After signing an executive order back on his first day in the office in January in January, President Donald Trump has placed in court for months, seeking to block almost all foreign aid expenses, as part of widespread cracks on his administration’s waste, fraud and misuse.
The order was blocked by a federal judge in DC earlier this year. The judge, US District Judge Amir Ali ordered the Trump administration to re -start payment on billions of dollars in funds for USAID projects which were previously approved by the Congress.
The order was overturned by the US District Court of Appeals for the DC circuit this month, which ruled 2–1 to vacate the prohibition of the lower court.
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US President Donald Trump, Right, and Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of Tesla Inc., during a news conference at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC in May 2025. (Through Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg Getty Image)
The appeal court partially evacuated the prohibition of Judge Ali, rejecting the request of foreign aid groups who demanded restoration of grant payments. 2-1 majority also decided that the plaintiff Failed to show Trump acted more “clearly” than his executive branch authorities.
Writing for MajorityJudge Karen L. Henderson, a President George HW Bush appointment, said the plaintiff said that the proper reason for action to prosecute the Trump administration on his decision to withdraw the funds was lacking, or known as the impulse.
But the appeal court has not yet issued a mandate to implement the decision – which means, for now, the judge’s order, and the payment schedule that he had previously placed – lives in place.
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The protesters held Placards as Deputy Administrator-Nammine Pete Maroko at USAID, attending a meeting with Congress members on Capital Hill in DC March on March 5, 2025. (Reuters/Kent Nishimura) (Reuters/Kent Nishimura)
SAUER argued in an emergency Supreme Court’s appeal that the Foreign Assistance Group, which sued the Trump administration this year, to refund some grant amount, there is no legal right to challenge the Executive Branch on the matter, which is technically under the legal jurisdiction of the impulse control act.
“The Congress did not disturb the delicate interbrech balance by permission for unlimited, unrestricted private suits,” Sawyer wrote. “Any controversial dispute about the proper disposal of the fund that tries to rescue it again before the President ends, he should be released into political branches, not effectively prejudiced by the district court.”
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The plaintiff, for his share, has argued that the Executive Branch lacks the right to prevent already approved funds unilaterally under the Emporation Control Act (ICA) as well as the Administrative Procedure Act.
The Supreme Court first ruled 5-4.