A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration may continue withholding billions of dollars in foreign aid, dealing a major blow to relief groups and potentially teeing up a critical Supreme Court test to the president’s attempts to control funding approved by Congress.
The 2-1 decision from the three-judge panel — which includes judges appointed by Trump and George H.W. Bush — overturned a district court’s injunction that ordered the administration to keep providing money for food, medicine and other aid that the president blocked on his first day in office.
