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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump gets big Supreme Court win and is allowed to freeze billions in foreign aid — for now

The Supreme Court has handed Donald Trump yet another victory by letting the administration continue to freeze billions of dollars in foreign aid while legal challenges against the government’s attempts to withhold public funding are ongoing.

On Tuesday, Chief Justice John Roberts granted the administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a lower court’s order, setting up a major test of what opponents have called the president’s unconstitutional attempts to control public funding approved by Congress.

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