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Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid To Freeze $2 Bn In Foreign Aid

The US Supreme Court rejected a Trump administration bid to freeze some $2 billion in foreign aid payments (Credit: AFP)

A divided US Supreme Court handed a legal defeat to President Donald Trump on Wednesday, rejecting his bid to freeze some $2 billion in foreign aid payments.

The top court, in its first significant ruling on a legal challenge to the Trump administration, voted 5-4 to uphold a lower court order requiring that payments be made on aid contracts that have already been completed.

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