Trump asks Supreme Court to allow billions in foreign aid cuts
US President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court to allow more than $ 4 billion (£ 3 billion) to get more foreign aid.
The Administration is looking for an emergency order while trying to get back the funds for foreign aid programs previously allocated by the Congress.
Last week, a sub -court said that the Trump administration had a legal obligation to spend the money and that the Court of Appeal refused last Friday to freeze this decision.
The president tried to use a rare legislative tool to withdraw the funds. Since his return to the White House, Trump canceled billions of dollars, which he said was not compatible with his goals.
Lawyer General D John Sauer said in a file on Monday that the sub -court had a precautionary precautionary decision “posing a grave and an urgent threat to the separation of forces”.
“The President cannot speak in a single voice in relations with Foreign Affairs or Congress, while the President forces the executive branch of the Regional Court to defend his own goals.”
The Supreme Court can always manage.
Last week, Judge Amir Ali decided that the US government had to spend the allocated money unless the Congress voted to approve the request of the Trump administration.
On August 28, Trump reported to the House of Representatives that the administration would not spend billions of foreign aid allocated by the congress earlier this year.
These funds include $ 3 billion for the US International Development Agency (USAID), as well as money for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Peace Protection and other countries for democracy equipment.
Republican Trump greatly dismantled USAID, the main foreign aid agency, because his expenditures were extravagant.
In order to cancel the foreign aid money, he said that he had used a so -called mobile withdrawal through the eclipse control law, which gives the US president the authority to request the cancellation of the funds approved by the congress.
Such a statement so late in the financial year means that money cannot be written because the Congress does not have enough time to act on demand.
A group of non -profit organizations and enterprises that received money for foreign aid projects offered a legal difficulty to take action.
It is reported that the president was the first time in the nearly half century, when the president was moved to unilateral return financing.
The Trump administration said it plans to spend more than $ 6.5 billion on the funds allocated for foreign aid after the lawsuits from aid groups.
This did not end for the first time in the High Court.
In March, justice rejected an offer from the president to freeze 2 billion dollars in foreign aid while the lawsuit progressed. It was 5-4 decisions.
