US Supreme Court upholds order forcing foreign aid payments

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Wednesday's Supreme Court decision was related to a lawsuit filed by global health groups and non-profit organisations challenging an executive order signed soon after Donald Trump's inauguration, which ordered an immediate halt to all foreign aid.
45% : In his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, Trump boasted that he had imposed a "freeze on all foreign aid", reeling off a list of what he considered to be egregious spending by the US government in countries including Mozambique, Mali and Uganda.
41% : However, some courts have found in the Trump administration's favour, refusing to stop Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency from accessing various data sets, and ruling that the CIA director had the authority to dismiss certain staff.
39% : Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that the head of an independent watchdog agency fired by Trump could stay in post.
31% : In response to the Supreme Court's order, pressure group Public Citizen, one of the organisations that brought the original case, said: "Trump is not a king.
23% : The US Supreme Court has narrowly upheld an order forcing the Trump administration to distribute nearly $2bn for foreign aid work already carried out around the world, in a further legal blow to the White House's drive to slash government spending.

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