Trump asks the Supreme Court to allow billions of abbreviations of foreign assistance

US President Donald Trump’s administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow him to keep over $ 4 billion ($ 3 billion) from foreign assistance.

The administration is looking for an emergency order as it is trying to return funds for foreign assistance programs that have already been distributed by Congress.

Last week, the Trump administration had a legal obligation to spend the money, and the Court of Appeal refused last Friday to freeze that decision.

The president tried to use a rarely used legislative tool to withdraw funds. Upon his return to the White House, Trump canceled billions of dollars foreign aid, which he believes does not bring in line with his goals.

Lawyer, D John Sauer, said in Monday, that the disposal of the lower court “raised a serious and urgent threat to the separation of the authorities”.

“The president can hardly speak in one voice in foreign affairs or in congress transactions when the district court forces the executive power to advocate against his own goals,” Sauer wrote.

The Supreme Court may rule at any time.

Last week, Judge Amir Ali ruled that the US government should spend the allocated money unless the Congress voted to approve the Trump administration’s request.

On August 28, Trump informed the Chamber of Representatives that the administration would not spend billions on foreign assistance allocated by Congress earlier this year.

These funds include about $ 3 billion for the US International Development Agency (USAID), as well as money for the State Department, international peace maintenance and democracy-promotion in other countries.

Trump, a Republican, largely disassembles USAID, the main foreign care agency because he said his costs were wasteful.

In order to cancel foreign care money, he said he was using the so -called pocket repeat through the detention Act, which gives the US president the power to request the cancellation of congressional funds.

Such a notice so late in the fiscal year means that money can remain unsaid because Congress does not have enough time to act on the request.

Group with non -profit organizations and businesses that receive money for foreign care projects have filed a legal challenge to move.

It is reported that for the first time in nearly half a century the president has moved into one -sided nail funding this way.

The Trump administration has already said it plans to spend another $ 6.5 billion funds assigned to foreign assistance after court cases by help groups.

This is not the first time Tushle for financing foreign assistance ended up in the Supreme Court.

In March, the judges rejected the president’s offer to reserve $ 2 billion for frozen foreign aid as the case moves forward. It was a decision 5-4.