The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow the government to not make about $4 billion in foreign aid payments, which the administration has told Congress it will unilaterally cancel under a 1974 budget law.
The U.S. asked the justices to temporarily halt a portion of a lower court ruling in a court challenge to the Trump administration’s freeze on foreign aid funds.
Last week, Judge Amir Ali of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has mandated that the administration pay $10.5 billion in foreign aid funds by Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year.
