What to Know About the Supreme Court Ruling Against Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze
The groups that sued insist the court’s ruling ought to force the Trump administration to restore all funding delivered via U.S.A.I.D. But the administration says it has the power to decimate the agency.
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