A federal appeals court said Wednesday that only the Government Accountability Office can sue over the Trump administration’s funding freezes — not people impacted by the funding cuts.

The 2-1 decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit undid a lower court ruling requiring the Trump administration to start spending funds for the U.S. Agency for International Development and other foreign assistance funds.

Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, writing for the majority, said that the 1974 Impoundment Control Act means that only the GAO can sue when the president withholds funds passed by Congress.

The decision could reverberate across numerous other cases where states and groups have sued, arguing that President Donald Trump illegally withheld funds under the law

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