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The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 9, 2024. (Photo by Jane Norman\/States Newsroom)<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday reaffirmed its ruling from earlier this month that the Trump administration can withhold $4 billion in foreign aid, though the order notes the decision \u201cshould not be read as a final determination on the merits\u201d of the case.<\/p>\n

White House budget director Russ Vought wrote on social media shortly after the order from the emergency docket was released that it represented a \u201cMajor victory.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new\u00a0nine-page order<\/a> doesn\u2019t provide any additional details about why a majority of the Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to rescind the funding without congressional approval.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But it does include a dissent written by Justice Elena Kagan that was supported by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, highlighting the stakes in the case.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis emergency application raises novel issues fundamental to the relationship between the President and Congress,\u201d Kagan wrote. \u201cIt arises from the refusal of the President and his officers to obligate and spend billions of dollars that Congress appropriated for foreign aid.\u201d<\/p>\n

The case, she wrote, brings up an issue the Supreme Court has never addressed.<\/p>\n

\u201cDeciding the question presented thus requires the Court to work in uncharted territory,\u201d Kagan wrote. \u201cAnd, to repeat, the stakes are high: At issue is the allocation of power between the Executive and Congress over the expenditure of public monies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kagan noted that since the case came to the justices on the emergency docket, they had less than three weeks to consider it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a few weeks\u2019 time\u2014when we turn to our regular docket\u2014we will decide cases of far less import with far more process and reflection,\u201d Kagan wrote.<\/p>\n

She goes on to disagree with the majority of the justices, saying the Supreme Court \u201cshould have denied this application, allowed the lower courts to go forward, and ensured that the weighty question presented here receives the consideration it deserves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump administration actions found illegal by watchdog<\/h4>\n

The ruling the Supreme Court posted Friday is similar to the one it\u00a0released in mid-September<\/a> when Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. overturned a district court ruling that would have required the Trump administration to spend the money.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The case now largely revolves around whether the White House budget office has the authority to send Congress a rescissions request during the last 45 days of the fiscal year, a maneuver the Government Accountability Office has called illegal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When the White House asks Congress to cancel previously approved spending through a rescission, lawmakers are supposed to have 45 days to approve, modify, or ignore the request.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Vought believes that any rescissions request sent up during those 45 days allows the White House to unilaterally cancel the funding, regardless of whether lawmakers agree or not.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Trump administration\u00a0asked lawmakers to eliminate<\/a> funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and various foreign aid programs this summer through a rescissions request.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers\u00a0mostly approved that proposal<\/a> after preserving full funding for the U.S. President\u2019s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.<\/p>\n

The White House budget office then sent lawmakers\u00a0a second rescissions request<\/a> in late August, proposing they claw back billions of additional foreign aid dollars.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Neither the House nor the Senate has yet to vote on that proposal. But the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling allows the White House budget office to withhold the funding anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Democratic members of Congress react<\/h4>\n

House Appropriations Committee ranking member Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and Senate Appropriations Committee ranking member Patty Murray, D-Wash., issued a joint statement after the court\u2019s ruling calling on their GOP colleagues to protect the institution\u2019s power over spending decisions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cCongress can\u2014and absolutely should\u2014promptly reject President Trump and Russ Vought\u2019s illegal effort to do an end run around the people\u2019s elected representatives by passing a bill like the one we introduced last week,\u201d they wrote. \u201cRepublicans should join Democrats to stand up for our power of the purse, rather than allow a president and an unelected bureaucrat who do not respect Congress or the Constitution to continue attacking our power to fight for the people back home that we represent.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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