The Justice Department filed an emergency request to the Supreme Court on Monday, asking for the Trump administration to be permitted to maintain a freeze on $4 billion in foreign aid.

The filing to the high court on its emergency docket came after the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declined to pause a lower court's ruling that ordered the government to spend billions of dollars in congressionally-approved foreign aid by the end of the month.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued in the petition to the high court that the district court is attempting to force the spending of funds President Donald Trump is seeking to cancel via a "pocket rescission." A pocket rescission is when a president sends a rescission request to Congress at the end of the fiscal year

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