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On Friday, the United States Supreme Court extended a previous order which allows the Trump administration to continue to block nearly $ 5 billion in foreign funds appropriate by the congress.
The United States Ministry of Justice had contacted the High Court for an emergency appeal after a judge of the District Court judged that the administration’s decision to maintain aid was probably illegal, adding that the Congress should approve of the restraint of the funds.
“This case raises questions of immense legal and practical importance, in particular if there is an avenue to test the decision of the executive power not to pass from appropriate funds to the congress,” said District Judge Amir Ali at the time.
The decision on Friday was 6 to 3 years old, the three dissident liberal judges.
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On Friday, the United States Supreme Court extended a previous order which allows the Trump administration to continue to block nearly $ 5 billion in foreign funds appropriate by the congress. (Images Andrew Harnik / Getty)
President Donald Trump last month sent a letter to the president of the Mike Johnson Chamber, explaining that he used a pocket termination, which allows a president to submit a request to the congress to hold approved funds towards the end of the fiscal year.
Under the federal law, the congress must approve the termination within 45 days or that the money must be spent. But the budgetary year will end before the 45 -day window closed and, in this situation, the White House affirms that the inaction of the congress allows it not to spend the money.
It was the first use of a pocket cancellation in 50 years.
Judges of the Supreme Court (Olivier Douliery / AFP via Getty Images)
Friday’s decision extends a temporary block put on the decision of the lower court by chief judge John Roberts on September 9.
Majority conservative judges on Friday said that Trump’s authority on foreign policy was weigning in the decision, but warned that it was not a final decision on the issue.
Moving the White House to cancel foreign aid of $ 4.9 billion with “Pocket Rensicionion” underlined as illegal
Foreign aid reductions have become a characteristic of the first program of America in the Trump administration.
The administration qualified the funds, which would have been used as foreign aid, for the United Nations peacekeeping efforts and to promote democracy in other countries, “unlike American foreign policy”. (AP photo / Jose Luis Magana)
In her dissident opinion, judge Elena Kagan, joined by judges Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, said: “The effect is to prevent funds from reaching their expected beneficiaries – not only now but (because of their imminent expiration) for all the time.”
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The administration qualified the funds, which would have been used as foreign aid, for the United Nations peacekeeping efforts and to promote democracy in other countries, “unlike American foreign policy”.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
