Supreme Court allows Trump to halt $4 billion in foreign aid for now

The Supreme Court halted a lower court order that mandated the Trump administration to spend $4 billion in foreign aid, which it aimed to cut via a “pocket rescission.” The high court’s Friday ruling marks the latest victory for the Trump administration on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket.

The unsigned order from the high court made clear that the ruling “should not be read as a final determination on the merits” of the case. Instead, the administration showed it was entitled to have the federal district court’s order halted at this point of litigation...