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US supreme court temporarily halts lower court order reinstating $5bn in foreign aid (www.theguardian.com)
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The US supreme court on Tuesday temporarily halted a lower court’s order that the Trump administration spend nearly $5bn in congressionally appropriated foreign aid money that it is seeking to cancel.

The order from the conservative chief justice, John Roberts, comes amid legal wrangling over Donald Trump’s moves to aggressively downsize US support of global development and emergency response, which has resulted in the dismantling of USAID.

Late last month, Trump informed the Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, that he would not spend $4.9b in foreign aid that Congress had previously approved, decrying it as “woke, weaponized and wasteful spending”. The money was to go to United Nations organizations and peacekeeping operations, as well as development assistance and democracy-promotion projects.

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 53 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

They really are working on making literally the worst choice on every single issue, huh

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 34 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Basically rubber stamping whatever Trump wants, so yeah

[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 20 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, it turns out that SC justices are surprisingly affordable.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 15 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Blows my mind that every bribe is always well under a mil. It's pathetic, really.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

Not sure about SCOTUS bribes, but a lot of House and Senate members can be bought for less than I paid for my used Toyota Camry.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 20 hours ago

Yeah, you just need to pony up for a nicely spec’d Winnebago. Embarrassingly cheap, tbh.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Don't worry! They will side with gun control groups very soon!

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 7 points 22 hours ago

They will not. If anything, they will support gun control only applied to the left. There is not a chance in hell that they will actually try to take away the Oathkeeper's weapons or whatever.