Supreme Court Temporarily Allows Trump to Withhold Billions in Foreign Aid
Trump wants to withhold $4-$5 billion in foreign aid.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts granted President Donald Trump a temporary stay on a recent order that would have forced the administration to spend billions in foreign aid by the end of September.
Roberts did not provide a reason for his decision.
Groups such as the Global Health Council and AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition sued the Trump administration for the freeze.
The administration wanted to spend $6.5 million of the allocated funds and withhold $4 billion.
White House budget chief Russ Vought tried to withhold the funds with a tactic called “‘pocket recission’ – an attempt to circumvent Congress’ power of the purse by declaring his intent to cut spending with limited time for lawmakers to respond.”
On September 4, U.S. District Judge Amir Ali ruled that Trump withholding the money without Congress’s approval would be illegal.
Ali told Trump to spend all $10.5 billion of the funds.
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It’s rather incredible that most, if not all, of these suits have been tossed in the circular file.
Should the utterly unpatriotic democrat party fail *miserably* in the midterms (🙏) perhaps we can get busy impeaching some of these activists in black robes.
Temporary…
Always with Trump
Actually, by law when they put in a rescission request Congress has 40 days to respond. So if they want to deny, they have every chance
Judge Amir Ali… who’s surprised?
Another Norwegian bachelor farmer.
Note it’s the Democrats with the Amir’s, Hakeem’s, Ilhsn, Rashida, and Janaaaaal.
JaMAaaaal…
How about Bilal Ali Essayli? We like him, don’t we?
“He is notable for being the first Muslim elected to the California State Assembly and has been involved in introducing legislation related to reparations for descendants of slavery.”
So far, not seeing many reasons to.
Not tired of winning.
One important point – very little of the foreign actually goes to program services. A large part is simply circulated among the ngo’s as compensation – basically a slush fund for liberals
And strangely enough always seems to hit the pocket of Democrat supporters?
Almost like a great big money laundering exercise 🤔
lefty: we are the worlds piggy bank>>>socialism
we owe the world b/c ya know we saved them and provided all of them with the blueprint for success and ya know we colonized them
we owe them reparations
and besides..it gets us invited to all the cocktail parties and epstein like thrills
I am a bit confused. The district court ordered, “… Defendants … to
make available for obligation and obligate, by September 30, 2025, for the uses and purposes specified by Congress: (1) the expiring funds Congress appropriated for foreign assistance programs in the fifteen categories of appropriations specified in the Global Health Plaintiffs’ motion from Title III and Title IV of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024 and prior appropriations acts…”
So does that mean that if the administration does not spend every last allocated dollar on these 15 categories they are in violation of the court order? Anyone who has managed a budget knows that no organization will exactly meet their budget at the end of the fiscal year.
The president is obliged to spend all funds that Congress appropriates. He is not allowed to impound any of that money and refuse to spend it. He has until the end of the fiscal year to ask Congress to change its mind; so he can’t be made to spend it before the end of the year, because Congress might agree to cancel it. But if it doesn’t he has to spend it by year’s end, i.e. September 30.
That’s the general principle. I don’t know what argument he’s made in this case, that let Roberts stay the order.
My understanding is that the way the law is written, Congress has 45 days to take action on the Presidents request, if it does not, the funds need to be expended.
In this case, the Authorization to spend any ‘25 money expires on 30 Sep. so the money is in limbo while the clock runs out.
No real reason why Congress can’t vote on it. It’s not subject to filibuster.
s/million/billion