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Chief Justice Roberts temporarily upheld Trump’s freeze of nearly $5 billion in foreign aid pending Supreme Court review of the emergency appeal.

Trump used a rarely employed “pocket rescission” authority to withhold funds approved by Congress, prompting a legal challenge over executive spending powers.

A lower court had ruled the funding freeze probably illegal, but the high court’s temporary order suggests justices may reverse that decision.

WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday temporarily kept in place the Trump administration’s decision to freeze nearly $5 billion in foreign aid.

Roberts acted on the administration’s emergency appeal to the Supreme Court in a case

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