The US supreme court on Tuesday temporarily halted a lower court’s order that the Trump administration spend nearly $5bn in congressionally appropriated foreign aid money that it is seeking to cancel.
The order from the conservative chief justice, John Roberts, comes amid legal wrangling over Donald Trump’s moves to aggressively downsize US support of global development and emergency response, which has resulted in the dismantling of USAID.
Late last month, Trump informed the Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, that he would not spend $4.9b in foreign aid that Congress had previously approved, decrying it as “woke, weaponized and wasteful spending”. The money was to go to United Nations organizations and peacekeeping operations, as well as development assistance and democracy-promotion projects.
They really are working on making literally the worst choice on every single issue, huh
Basically rubber stamping whatever Trump wants, so yeah
Yeah, it turns out that SC justices are surprisingly affordable.
Blows my mind that every bribe is always well under a mil. It’s pathetic, really.
Not sure about SCOTUS bribes, but a lot of House and Senate members can be bought for less than I paid for my used Toyota Camry.
Yeah, you just need to pony up for a nicely spec’d Winnebago. Embarrassingly cheap, tbh.
Don’t worry! They will side with gun control groups very soon!
They will not. If anything, they will support gun control only applied to the left. There is not a chance in hell that they will actually try to take away the Oathkeeper’s weapons or whatever.
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“Temporarily” my ass. They’re never going to revisit that decision. It will simply linger just beyond the edge of legality, indefinitely.
On September 30, the fiscal year will turn over, and the funds will not be available anyway. The case will be moot, so they will never be able to argue the merits in court, and the court will never come to a final decision.
The money will disappear. (Where? Somewhere, who knows?) And Congress’s will, expressed when they passed a law that said to spend this money on foreign aid in this fiscal year, will have been defeated.
Every single cold war era president would be spinning in their graves.
