Supreme Court urged to weigh if judge can stop Trump admin. from freezing billions in foreign aid

The Trump administration has filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court over whether it must make billions of dollars in foreign aid payments.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed an application with the high court on Tuesday evening to stay a preliminary injunction blocking an executive order stopping specific foreign aid payments.

The injunction was issued in the cases of United States Department of State, et al. v. AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, et al., and Donald Trump, et al. v. Global Health Council, et al.

"This case began as an emergency over whether a district court had jurisdiction to order the government to pay $2 billion for contractual work completed under foreign-aid grants within 36 hours," reads the application.

"Now, that district court has installed itself as supervisor-in-chief of further spending and rescissions proposals, issuing a preliminary injunction ordering the government to make available for obligation tens of billions of dollars in appropriated foreign aid funds and to spend many billions of dollars by September 30, before those appropriations expire."

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