The American Court of Appeal says that Trump can reduce billions of USAID funds

A federal court of appeal judged on Wednesday that the Trump administration Can reduce up to around $ 2 billion in foreign aid payments which he interrupted earlier this year, offering a victory to the Trump administration of the months after President Donald Trump sought to dismantle the American International Development Agency (USAID).

The judges of the United States Court of Appeal for the DC circuit ruled 2-1 to cancel a preliminary injunction of a lower court rendered earlier this year. The USAID USAID -USAID -USAID -USAID -USAID -USAID -USAID -USAID -USAID -USAID -USAID administration judge for the Trump. The question has been exercised by the Federal Court for months.

Writing for the majority, judge Karen L. Henderson, the president appointed by George HW Bush, said that the complainants did not have the good cause of action to continue the Trump administration about his decision to refuse funds, or what is called the impoundment.

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The complainants, Henderson, said: “cannot provide an autonomous constitutional complaint if the allegedly underlying violation and the claimed authority are statutory”.

“The beneficiaries also have no cause of action under the APA because the APA exam is excluded by the law on the control of the deduction (ICA),” she added, although she noted that the US controller could technically continue under this law.

The majority 2-1 also judged that the complainants Watch failure Trump had acted “clearly” beyond his executive authorities.

Judge Henderson was joined in the majority opinion by judge Greg Katsas, one appointed by Trump.

It was not immediately clear if the complainants of the case would seek to make their case heard in the bench – or by the complete panel of the American Democratic Court of Appeal to DC – although this could give them a short -term compensation, if the complete court of appeal went to the side of the federal judge who had delivered a preliminary injunction earlier this year.

Be that as it may, the decision is a major victory for President Donald Trump, who published a decree on the first day of power in January to block almost all foreign aid spending in the broader repression of his administration against waste, fraud and abuse.

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Employees and supporters meet to protest outside the headquarters of the American Agency for International Development (USAID) on February 03, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images) (Photo by Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images)

Critics, on the other hand, argued that the brutal withdrawal of American investment and presence in the world risks economic damage, reputation damage and new security risks in the country and abroad.

Trump’s decree sparked a burst of federal proceedings and finally made its way to the Supreme Court in February. The judges of the High Court rejected the request of the Trump administration in February to continue his freeze on the payments of the USAID, judging 5-4 according to which a deadline for previous payment on February 26 had already expired and referred the case to the district court to clarify the additional payment details.

Four conservative judges on the bench have excrupted the decision of the thin majority earlier this year.

Judge Samuel Alito published a scathing dissent of eight pages in February which denounced the decision of the majority of the close court as “unhappy misstep”, and he argued “awarded an act of judicial pride” by the judge of the lower court, the American district judge Amir Ali.

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“A single district judge who probably lacks competence has the uncontrolled power to force the United States government to pay (and probably to lose forever) 2 billion dollars of taxpayers? Kavanaugh.

“I’m amazed,” he added.

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An American flag and an USAID flag fly in front of the USAID building in Washington, DC, on February 1, 2025. (Reuters / Annabelle Gordon)

However, the efforts of the Trump administration sparked the anger of foreign aid groups and other aid beneficiaries, who argue that the rapid dismantling of them risked “immediate and irreparable damage”.

They also feared that the reduction of funds to create new obstacles for American companies that seek to open or develop on foreign markets.

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Scott Graytak, director of the US Transparency International group, previously told Fox News Digital in a press release that the reduction of such an amount of American foreign aid includes significant economic and security risks-in particular in countries with higher risks of corruption, could “open the door to increased cross-border corruption, fraud and other crimes,” he said.