Supreme Court allows Trump to withhold $4 billion in foreign aid -against Congress & lower Court!!!

The SC ruling was the now typical -6-3 ruling

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Supreme Court allows Trump to withhold $4 billion in foreign aid

September 26, 20257:06 PM ET

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/26/nx-s1-5554825/supreme-court-trump-foreign-aid-pocket-rescission?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

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"We have had to consider this application on a short fuse — less than three weeks. We have done so with scant briefing, no oral argument, and no opportunity to deliberate in conference," Kagan wrote.

Last month, President Trump informed House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., that he will not be spending $4.9 billion in congressionally approved foreign aid through a controversial and rare authority known as a pocket rescission.


Typically, lawmakers have 45 days to consider a request to rescind or cancel appropriated funds. But when a request comes close to the end of a budget year, the president may bypass the legislative branch. A pocket rescission has not been used since the 1970s.

The pocket rescission includes targeting funds for development assistance grants, the United Nations, and international peacekeeping operations