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(CNN) — The Trump administration on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to step into an ongoing fight over billions of dollars in foreign aid that it says a lower court will force it to spend unless the justices intervene.

The emergency appeal, which asks the high court to weigh in by next week, deals with an unusual procedural situation that the Department of Justice claims has threatened “irreparable diplomatic costs.” Even though an appeals court sided with President Donald Trump earlier this month in the case, a lower court decision requiring the money to be spent remains in effect.

Unless the Supreme Court intervenes, the administration said in its filing Tuesday, that lower court decision “will effectively force the government to rap

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