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Supreme Court Hands Trump A Major Win, Allows $4 Billion In Foreign Aid Freeze To Stay In Place As Congressional Deadline Looms

On Friday, the Supreme Court gave the Donald Trump-led administration permission to keep $4 billion in foreign aid frozen, which was set to expire on Sept. 30.

Benzinga

Supreme Court says Trump is allowed to freeze $4 billion in funding, overriding Congress’s spending power

Trump had deemed $4 billion in foreign aid funding, allocated by congress, wasteful

The Independent UK

Supreme Court allows US to cancel $4 billion in foreign aid funds - Roll Call

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to effectively cancel about $4 billion in appropriated foreign aid funds.

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Trump’s shocking plan for $1.8 billion in foreign aid revealed – here’s where your tax dollars are really going

Feeding hungry people? America apparently won't be doing that anymore.

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Trump Admin To Shift Hundreds Of Millions In Funding To 'Confront The Marxist, Anti-American Regimes Of Venezuela, Cuba'

The Trump administration said it's shifting hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid to "confront the Marxist, anti-American regimes of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua" as it ramps up pressure on Caracas.

Latin Times

Bill Gates calls on Congress to ‘show its values’ on foreign aid, or this year will see children’s deaths go up instead of down

Gates is putting his money where his mouth is: He said he will give away “virtually all of my wealth”—some $100 billion—which will be deployed to cure diseases in the poorest countries.

Fortune

Voices: It is deluded to slash foreign aid in refugee hotspots without expecting more boats to arrive

COMMENT: Prevention is always better than cure, writes Sarah Champion, so investing in ways for people to feel secure and earn a living in their home country through aid is important

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White House rescission strategy worries some GOP appropriators - Roll Call

Key House GOP appropriators are raising concern about the White House’s use of an untested budgetary tool to end some foreign aid funds.

Roll Call

US supreme court clears way for Trump to withhold $5bn in foreign aid

Trump had stopped foreign aid funds by use of ‘pocket rescission’; aid groups now have until Friday to respond

The Guardian - US

Supreme Court lets Trump freeze $4 billion in foreign aid, for now

The order is not the final decision on the matter, but it means the money remains frozen pending the outcome of the Trump administration's appeal.

Axios

US Supreme Court paves way for Trump to cut $4bn in foreign aid

Emergency stay granted by court one day after government requests it be allowed to ignore lower court order.

Al Jazeera

Supreme Court for now allows US to hold funds it wants to rescind - Roll Call

The Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily allowed the Trump administration to hold on to billions in foreign aid funds that it wants to cancel.

Roll Call

Voices: A post-foreign aid world needs to be built on transformational tax and trade policies

COMMENT: As traditional donors like the US and UK cut back, the answer for Africa and the Global South is not in charity, but in a fundamental restructuring of how the world economy is organised, writes Fadhel Kaboub

The Independent UK

Trump appeals foreign aid freeze to Supreme Court

It follows a federal judge ordering the admin to release the billions approved by Congress.

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The Independent UK

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

Government lawyers claimed unfreezing aid poses ‘grave and urgent threat’ to the presidency

Al Jazeera

Trump asks Supreme Court to let it cut billions in foreign aid

Request comes after an appeals court orders Trump to distribute the congressionally approved funds.

Roll Call

US asks Supreme Court to allow halt on some foreign aid spending - Roll Call

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow the government to not make about $4 billion in foreign aid payments.

The Guardian - US

Maryland screwworm case has US officials bracing for return of an old foe

Rise in cases south of the border prompts concern over US livestock as Trump budget cuts hit research and foreign aid

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Sen. Andy Kim, former USAID intern, reflects on seismic shifts in U.S. foreign policy - Roll Call

The New Jersey Democrat says he strongly rejects the Trump administration’s argument that foreign aid doesn’t serve U.S. interests.

Al Jazeera

Judge blocks Trump’s bid to cut $4bn in US foreign aid

Federal judge says Trump administration cannot refuse to spend funds appropriated by US Congress.

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‘Breaking new ground’: Trump’s $5 billion funding grab splits GOP as government shutdown looms at month’s end

Trump claws back $5 billion in foreign aid Congress already approved.

Roll Call

'Pocket rescission' showdown - Roll Call

Democrats are warning that Republicans risk a partial government shutdown next month if they don’t resist President Donald Trump’s plan to claw back $4.9 billion in foreign aid through a so-called pocket rescission. CQ Roll Call’s Paul M. Krawzak and David Lerman explain how the White House push to cancel…

International Business Times

Trump Moves To Cut More Foreign Aid, Risking Shutdown

US President Donald Trump has moved to cut nearly $5 billion of congressionally-approved foreign aid, the White House said Friday -- raising the likelihood of a federal shutdown as Democrats oppose the policy.

The Independent UK

‘Secretary of Everything’ Marco Rubio hands control of what’s left of USAID to Project 2025 co-author

Members of Congress blast Russell Vought for trying to claw back $5 billion from embattled foreign aid agency

Al Jazeera

Trump seeks to cut $5bn in congressionally approved foreign aid

White House seeks to run out clock on funding after already slashing billions in aid in move decried as overreach.

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