Appeals Court Gives Trump the Green Light - Allows Government to Cut Off Billions of Dollars in Foreign Aid
A U.S. appeals court has upheld the Trump administration's decision to suspend or cut billions of dollars in foreign aid funding approved by Congress, seven months after the president's executive order triggered a global humanitarian crisis.
The panel of appeals judges concluded that the grantees who challenged the freeze did not meet the conditions for a temporary order that would restore the flow of funds.
This decision removes any dispute from the issue for US President Donald Trump, who, on the first day of his second term in the White House, issued an executive order ordering the State Department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to increase spending on foreign aid.
Last month, data published in the medical journal The Lancet warned that Trump's decision to cut most US funding for international humanitarian aid could result in 14 million additional deaths by 2030.
The researchers estimated that children made up a third of people at risk of dying at a young age and that the shock that low- and middle-income countries were experiencing was "comparable in scale to a global pandemic or a major armed conflict."
In March, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US Agency for International Development (USAID) had canceled more than 80% of its programs. The Trump administration has criticized what it sees as excessive spending.
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