Supreme Court Justice John Roberts has temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that required the Trump administration to release nearly $4 billion in foreign aid. Democrat lawmakers have expressed concern that the action could undermine congressional authority over the power of the purse. The Court has indicated it will review the administration’s emergency appeal.
Roberts’ stay targets U.S. District Judge Amir Ali’s ruling barring the administration from withholding the funds. The Trump administration argued the injunction “irreparably harms the Executive Branch.”
Ali stated, “This case raises questions of immense legal and practical importance, including whether there is any avenue to test the executive branch’s decision not to spend congressionally appropriated funds.”
President Trump has been trying to cut waste and fraud in foreign spending but Democrat judges have stopped him every step of the way.
President Trump is planning rescission packages to get Congress to make the cuts.
Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote, “While proposed rescissions are pending, presidents do not spend the funds, for obvious reasons: it would be self-defeating and senseless for the executive branch to obligate the very funds that it is asking Congress to rescind.”
Sauer added, “Yet the new injunction would force the executive branch to start obligating those funds at breakneck speed to meet the Sept. 30 deadline, even as Congress is considering the rescission proposal and before its 45 days to do so elapse.”
The Supreme Court will hear the emergency appeal.
The “will of the people’…IS being subverted by a corrupt judiciary…
This “judge” who is listed as a Canadian-American was born in Canada to Egyptian-Canadian parents. That does not make him a US citizen and if naturalized he could not be “Canadian-American” as when one is naturalized they must renounce all loyalty to their former country. Or maybe he was naturalized during the Obamanation who threw out many requirements to become… Read more »
Amir Ali…..’Nuff said
Ali is a hostile foreign invader and has no place being a judge and telling our president wht to do. Deport the jihadist in a black robe. INvestigate Roberts for allowing these shenanigans