3Supreme Court Hands Trump Major Victory In Foreign Aid Fight
The U.S. Supreme Court will allow the federal government to freeze more than $4 billion in foreign aid payments that President Trump tried to cancel last month using a rare “pocket rescission.”
The justices voted 6-3 to grant the Trump administration’s emergency appeal, which stopped a lower court’s order to release the funds that had already been set aside.
A spokesperson for the White House Office of Management and Budget said, “This is a huge win for restoring the President’s power to carry out his policies. Left-wing groups can no longer take over the president’s agenda.”
Most of the justices agreed that “the harms to the Executive’s conduct of foreign affairs appear to outweigh the potential harm faced by respondents.” The Post said that the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, Journalism Development Network, Center for Victims of Torture, and Global Health Council are some of them.
The Supreme Court’s decision didn’t answer the bigger question of whether President Trump has the power to “impound” money that Congress has approved on his own.
Trump recently told House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) that he was going to cancel more than $4 billion in foreign aid. This included $3.2 billion in programs run by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), $322 million from the joint USAID–State Department Democracy Fund, and $521 million in State Department contributions to international organizations.
The request, called a “pocket rescission,” was sent to Congress so close to the end of the fiscal year on September 30 that it would automatically go into effect, no matter what Congress did.
It is the first time in almost fifty years that a president has done this.
The funding in question had been designated for nonprofit organizations currently suing the Trump administration, as well as for foreign governments.
A U.S. District Judge named Amit Mehta Ali, who was appointed by Biden, said earlier this month that the administration could not keep the money without Congress’s approval of the proposal to cancel it.
Ali wrote, “So far, Congress has not responded to the President’s proposal to rescind the funds.” “And the [Impoundment Control Act] makes it clear that it is congressional action, not the President sending a special message, that ends the previous appropriations.”
The nonprofit groups that are fighting the Trump administration’s funding freeze said that the pocket rescission broke federal law and put important, life-saving programs abroad at risk.
Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson disagreed with the majority ruling on Friday.
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case on Monday that will decide whether President Donald Trump can fire members of the Federal Trade Commission without cause. This case could change the definition of presidential power and the independence of federal agencies.
The justices said in a short order that Trump could fire FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter while the case is still going on. The stay that lets her go will stay in place until the court makes a decision, which is set for December.
The case asks if laws that protect FTC commissioners from being fired violate the separation of powers and if the court’s 1935 decision to uphold those protections should be changed. It will also look into whether lower federal courts can stop removals, like they did when Trump fired Democratic appointees.
Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, who are on the left side of the high court, disagreed. Kagan wrote that the order effectively gives the president “full control” over independent agencies that Congress wanted to keep out of politics.
“He can now fire any member he wants, for any reason or no reason at all,” says the majority, even though Congress said otherwise. She wrote, “And he may do this to end the agencies’ independence and bipartisanship.”
The Republican-Controlled U.S. House of Representative Passes Major Bill 216 - 211 - Now Federal Employees File Complaint...
Washington, D.C. — June 3, 2026
The Trump administration is facing a new legal challenge from federal employees over a policy, effective Thursday, that eliminates coverage for gender-related healthcare services in federal employee health insurance plans.
The Human Rights Campaign filed a formal complaint Thursday with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of current federal workers. The complaint challenges an August directive from the Office of Personnel Management that ends coverage for “chemical and surgical modification of an individual’s sex traits through medical interventions” under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program and plans covering U.S. Postal Service employees.
The complaint argues that the denial of coverage for gender-transition care amounts to sex-based discrimination and calls on the personnel office to withdraw the policy.
“This policy is not about cost or care—it is about driving transgender people and people with transgender spouses, children, and dependents out of the federal workforce,” said Kelley Robinson, President of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, in a statement released with the filing.
The complaint includes statements from four federal employees working at the State Department, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the U.S. Postal Service. These workers say the loss of coverage will directly affect their families. One Postal Service employee described how doctors have recommended puberty blockers and possibly hormone replacement therapy for her daughter, who has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Those treatments would no longer be covered under the new OPM policy.
The employees are bringing the claim on their own behalf and on behalf of a “class of similarly situated federal employees.”
The filing comes as the Trump administration has moved aggressively to restrict access to gender-affirming care, particularly for minors. In December, the Department of Health and Human Services proposed rules that would bar hospitals from providing gender-transition services to minors if they receive Medicare or Medicaid funding. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has publicly described such care for minors as “malpractice.”
These restrictions run counter to positions held by major medical organizations, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, which support gender-affirming care as medically appropriate when clinically indicated.
Last week, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed legislation that would criminalize gender-transition treatments for minors, including surgeries and hormone therapies, and impose prison sentences of up to ten years on providers who violate the ban. The bill passed on a 216-211 vote, almost entirely along party lines.
Civil rights groups described the measure as one of the most far-reaching anti-transgender bills ever considered by Congress. It is considered unlikely to advance in the Senate, where it would need bipartisan support to overcome procedural hurdles.
The legislation was advanced after Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) conditioned her support for a defense policy bill on Speaker Mike Johnson bringing her measure to the floor. Greene said the bill fulfills a key campaign promise made by President Trump and codifies his executive order restricting gender-affirming medical procedures.
“Most Americans agree that kids just need to grow up before they do anything radical, like a mastectomy on a 15-year-old girl,” Greene said during floor debate, displaying an image of a minor who had undergone such a procedure.
The complaint filed Thursday marks the latest flashpoint in the widening conflict between the Trump administration’s healthcare policies and federal workers who say those policies will harm them and their families.
Part 2: The billionaire’s engagement party turned into a nightmare when a little boy suddenly pointed at the mansion maid and screamed, “That’s my mommy!”
Part 2: The billionaire’s engagement party turned into a nightmare when a little boy suddenly pointed at the mansion maid and screamed, “That’s my mommy!”
The billionaire’s engagement party turned into a nightmare when a little boy suddenly pointed at the mansion maid and screamed, “That’s my mommy!”
The music stopped.
Champagne glasses froze in midair.
And in the center of the dazzling ballroom, billionaire Ethan Whitmore felt his blood run cold.
Because the woman his son was running toward had been dead for two years.
Or so everyone thought.
For months, the quiet maid had cleaned his mansion without drawing attention.
No one looked at her twice.
No one suspected a thing.
Until Ethan’s four-year-old son broke free from the crowd, rushed across the ballroom, and threw himself into her arms, crying, “Mommy, don’t leave me again!”
A stunned silence swallowed the room.
Then the maid slowly removed her glasses…
And Ethan dropped his champagne flute onto the marble floor.
Because staring back at him was the exact face of the wife he had buried after a mysterious car crash.
But the most terrifying moment came next.
The woman turned toward Ethan’s beautiful fiancée…
Locked eyes with her…
And whispered a single sentence about the night she supposedly died.
Within seconds, the fiancée’s smile vanished.
Her face turned ghost white.
And everyone in the ballroom realized that the real story of the crash had never been buried at all…
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