A Supreme Court Setback for Trump in the USAID Dispute May Not Be the Last Word

There's another twist this morning in Department of State v. AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, the case challenging Donald Trump's effort to exert presidential control over the U.S. Agency for International Development. Trump wants USAID to stop paying money to left-leaning causes and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that, in his view, do nothing to advance the American interests that USAID was created to advance. He has, for the moment, used the blunt instrument of an order halting it from handing out more money and folding USAID into the State Department. The administration emphasizes that USAID's statute is very vague, and that most ...