FROM FOX NEWS: Lawyers for the Trump administration filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court on Tuesday night asking the justices to halt a lower court injunction and allow it to freeze billions in foreign aid spending previously allocated by Congress — kicking the issue of USAID funding back to the high court for the second time in roughly six months.
At issue is nearly $12 billion in funding allocated to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and owed by the end of the fiscal year in September. The majority of those funds were axed by President Donald Trump almost immediately after taking office, under the broader mantle of slashing foreign aid and eliminating so-called “waste, fraud, and abuse.”
U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the Supreme Court in an emergency filing Tuesday that, absent intervention from the high court, the Trump administration would be forced to “rapidly obligate some $12 billion in foreign-aid funds” owed by September 30, or the end of the fiscal year.
The U.S. District Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit overturned a lower court’s order to resume foreign aid payments after President Trump signed an executive order to block nearly all foreign aid spending to combat waste, fraud, and abuse.
The appeals court’s ruling has not yet been enforced, so the lower court’s order and payment schedule remain in place for now.
While the D.C. Circuit Twiddles Its Thumbs, Trump Admin. Takes USAID Case Back to SCOTUShttps://t.co/7f1SwsMQyI
— RedState (@RedState) August 27, 2025
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