The US Supreme Court on Friday allowed President Donald Trump to freeze $4 billion in foreign aid payments.

According to a report by CNN, the $4 billion in foreign aid, including for global health and HIV programmes, was allocated by Congress but Trump deemed wasteful and has been fighting on two fronts. His administration had also been seeking to “rescind" the money through Congress.

The court said that the argument by Trump administration that the lower court’s order requiring the money to be spent would affect its “conduct of foreign affairs" appeared to “outweigh the potential harm" faced by the nonprofit groups hoping to compete for that money.

“This order should not be read as a final determination on the merits," the court wrote in its unsigned order. “The relief granted by the c

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