Trump administration seeks Supreme Court emergency order to maintain freeze on billions in foreign aid funding approved by Congress.

A federal judge ruled the $4.9 billion freeze likely illegal, rejecting Trump’s use of disputed “pocket rescission” authority from decades past.

The case marks the third Supreme Court appeal by the administration, with opponents calling the funding freeze unlawful and unprecedented.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court for an emergency order to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid frozen.

The crux of the legal fight is over nearly $5 billion in congressionally approved aid that President Trump last month said he would not spend, invoking disputed authority that was last used by a president roughly 50 years ago.

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