The federal government does not have to continue payments for foreign aid, and the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that President Donald Trump achieved a major victory.
The ruling reversed a lower court decision that said the Trump administration must restore billions of dollars of foreign aid that Congress has approved.
Trump imposed a 90-day pause on all foreign aid on his first day at the White House in January. International aid organizations that rely heavily on government grants have sued to challenge Trump’s orders.
Cuts cuts were nearly $4 billion (£2.95B) until September, global health plans.
The $6 billion in the HIV and AIDS program approved by Congress in 2028 can also be ruled under a decision.
Two of the three judges in the Court of Appeals panel agreed with the plaintiffs, and the aid group did not have a position to file a lawsuit, so the cuts could continue.
International aid organizations sued the government in February. In March, a district judge issued a preliminary injunction that prevented the Trump administration’s funds from being frozen, saying it was illegal because the funds were allocated by Congress.
Since he returned to the office, Trump has cut foreign aid, mainly shutting down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the main foreign aid agency because he found its spending “waste.”
As of March, more than 80% of all the agency’s plans were cancelled and officially closed by the State Council on July 1, and the rest was taken over by the State Council.
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More than 14 million people could die by 2030, according to a warning published by researchers in the highly regarded journal of the Lancet Medicine earlier this year.
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