Supreme Court rejects Trump administration appeal to keep frozen billions in foreign aid

The ruling was 5-4.

Published: March 5, 2025 9:49am

Updated: March 5, 2025 10:15am

The Supreme Court on Wednesday morning rejected an appeal by the Trump administration to keep frozen billions of dollars of foreign aid that was approved by Congress.

The 5-4 decision allows the matter to continued to be decided in lower courts, which sparked the appeal to the high court. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the Democratic nominees to reject the appeal.

Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh objected in a dissent penned by Alito, who called himself "stunned" that the majority allowed "a single district-court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction [to] have the unchecked power to compel the Government of the United States to pay out (and probably lose forever) 2 billion taxpayer dollars."


 

 

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