A panel of U.S. appeals court judges handed President Donald Trump another win Wednesday, cutting off billions in funding for foreign aid.
According to the ruling, Trump doesn’t have to spend any of the money as allocated, and, more so, only the legislative branch has the power to sue the Trump administration for changing the planned budget.
The fate remains unclear for grant recipients, who had already been awarded some of the $6 billion for HIV/AIDS programs and $4 billion for the U.S. Agency for International Development, which Trump shuttered on July 1.
But on top of freezing money already approved for spending, the Trump administration is also literally burning resources that it doesn’t like, including 500 metric tons of emergency biscuits designated to feed children in Afghanistan