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US Supreme Court Gives the Administration a Free Pass to Withhold Foreign Aid
Late today in AVAC v Department of State and Global Health Council v Trump, the Supreme Court of the United States granted the US Presidential Administration’s request to stay an injunction that would require the Administration to obligate $4 billion of foreign assistance funds before they expire on September 30, as required by law. The Court’s ruling temporarily grants the Administration’s request to pause a lower court order that the government spend the funds. With just four days until September 30, those funds, which otherwise would have saved lives and advanced global health and national security, will remain unspent.