Supreme Court rejects Trump's bid to freeze foreign aid - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

39% : Although the language of the order was mild, tentative and not a little confusing, its bottom line was that a bare majority of the court ruled against Trump on one of his signature projects.
38% : " Recipients and other nonprofit groups filed two lawsuits challenging the freeze as an unconstitutional exercise of presidential power that thwarted congressional appropriations for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
33% : But the ruling represented one of the court's first moves in response to the flurry of litigation filed in response to Trump's efforts to slash government spending and take complete control of the executive branch.
33% : Judge Amir Ali of the U.S. District Court in Washington, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, issued a temporary restraining order Feb. 13 prohibiting administration officials from ending or pausing payments of appropriated money under contracts that were in place before Trump took office.
31% : The groups said the frozen funds have created cascading crises, threatening critical medical care around the world, leaving food rotting in warehouses, ruining businesses and risking the spread of diseases and political instability.

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