Trump said last month that he would not spend the funds, invoking a contested power that no president has summoned in the last 50 years.
The US Supreme Court has temporarily upheld the decision of Donald Trump’s government to freeze much of foreign aid and quickly scheduled the beginning of the trial on customs tariffs.
In the case about the Trump government cut of almost $ 5 billion (4.3 billion euros) in Congress -approved foreign aid, the president of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, This Tuesday accepted the emergency appeal presented by the executive.
Trump said last month that he would not spend the fundsinvoking a contested power that no president has invoked in the last 50 years.
The order of the Superior Court is temporary, although it suggests, according to Agency AP, that the judges will revert a decision of a lower court that has probably considered illegal to withhold the financing.
District Judge Amir there decided last week that Congress would have to approve the decision to withhold the financing.
The government appealed to the Higher Court after a federal appeal panel of federal judges refused to block there.
Effectively cutting the budget without legislative authorization, Trump reported in a letter on 28 August to the Republican who chairs the Chamber of Representatives, Mike Johnson, that would not spend almost $ 5 billion on help approved by Congress.
After Trump issued this termination notificationThe complainants appealed to the court again and the judge there issued the order now contested.
The lawyers of the Justice Department reported a federal judge last month that would be spent before the end of the fiscal year, on September 30, $ 6.5 billion (5.5 billion euros) in help that had been frozen.
Trump administration has made deep reductions in foreign aid one of its most emblematic policies, despite relatively scarce savings over the deficit and possible damage to the United States reputation abroad as foreign populations lose access to food supplies and development programs.
Also this Tuesday, the Supreme Court exceptionally scheduled an audience to decide If Trump has the power to impose general customs tariffs under Federal Law.
After Trump himself requested a quick decision, Judges of the highest judicial instance in the country scheduled the hearing in which the arguments will be presented.
Small businesses and states that contested in court They also agreed with the accelerated calendar.
Os complainants claim that Trump illegally used emergency powers To establish import taxes on products from almost every country in the world, almost leading their business to bankruptcy.
The Federal Court of Appeal held last week a May decision of a Federal Court of New York specializing in commerce, giving reason to the complaints, and that the government appealed.
According to the court decision, “The law grants the president ample powers to take a number of measures in response to a declared national emergency, but none of these actions explicitly includes the power to impose customs rates and other taxes.”
However, The Court rejected part of the contested decisionwhich annulled the rates immediately, giving the government time to present an appeal to the Supreme Court.
The execution of the decision It was suspended until October 14 and customs rates remain in force until that date.
Shortly after the decision was known, Trump stated on the social network Truth Social “Supreme Court help” to keep the overcrowders applied and stressed that they remain temporarily.
Thanks to nominations of judges made in Trump’s first term (2017-2021), The Supreme Court currently has a conservative majority.
The Constitution grants Congress the power to apply taxes, including tariffs, and no president had invoked a national emergency – the external commercial deficit that the United States has maintained for almost five decades – to regulate trade with other countries.
A judicial contestation does not cover Trump rates on steel, aluminum and foreign cars, imposed after investigations by the trade department concluded that these were threats to national security.
Nor does it include the rates that Trump imposed on China in his first term — and that former President Joe Biden maintained — after a government investigation concluded that Chinese used unfair practices to give their own technological companies advantage over western rivals.
