The Supreme Court of the United States on October 9, 2024 (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)
Washington -The Supreme Court of the United States confirmed on Friday his decision from the beginning of this month that the Trump administration can hold back a welfare aid of 4 billion US dollars, although the order determines that the decision should not be read as a final decision on the services of the case “.
Shortly after the order of the order on social media, the budget director of the White House, Russ Vought, wrote that it was a “great victory”.
The novel nine order There is no additional details about why the majority of the Supreme Court of the Trump government can reserve the financing without the approval of the congress.
But it includes a dissent from Justice Elena Kagan, which was supported by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson and emphasizes the missions in the case.
“This emergency application accuses new issues that are of fundamental importance for the relationship between president and congress,” wrote Kagan. “It results from the rejection of the President and his officers to spend billions of dollars that the Congress for Foreign Aid has appropriated.”
The case, she wrote, raises a problem that the Supreme Court has never addressed.
“The decision of the question asked requires that the court work in an unknown area,” wrote Kagan. “And to repeat the missions are high: it is about the allocation of power between executive and congress about the expenditure of public funds.”
Kagan noticed that since the case came the judges in an emergency docket, the case had less than three weeks to consider.
“In a few weeks – if we turn to our regular docket – we will decide for cases of far less import with far more process and reflection,” wrote Kagan.
She did not agree with the majority of the judges, said the Supreme Court “should have refused this application, enabled the forerunners to go forward, and ensured that the important question presented here received the consideration that it deserves.”
Trump administration actions by Watchdog perceived as illegal
The judgment of the Supreme Court, which was published on Friday Published in mid -September As the top judge John G. Roberts Jr., a judgment of the district court opened in which the Trump government would spend the money.
The case is now mainly about whether the White House budget office has a rescue application in the last 45 days of the financial year in the last 45 days of the financial year.
When the White House asks Congress to terminate previously approved expenses through a resignation, the legislator should have 45 days to approve, change or ignore.
However, VOUGHTS believes that an investigation request that was sent during these 45 days enables the White House to unilaterally cancel the financing, regardless of whether the legislator agrees or not.
The Trump administration asked the legislators to eliminate Financing of the company for public broadcasting and various foreign aid programs this summer through a drive request.
Legislator Most of the time this proposal approved After the full financing of the US President of AIDS’s emergency plan.
The White House household office then sent the legislator a second recovery request At the end of August, they proposed to suppress billions of additional foreign aid dollar.
Neither the house nor the Senate have to vote on this proposal. But the judgment of the Supreme Court allows the White House household office to keep the financing back.
Democratic members of the congress react
The member of the House Appropriations Committee, the member Rosa Delauro, D-Conn., And Senate Committee Committee, the member Patty Murray, D-Wash.
“The congress can – and should it be absolutely to – President Trump and Russ Vought’s illegal efforts to make an end to the elected representatives of the people, to reject by saying a bill as the last week,” they wrote. “The Republicans should join the Democrats to stand up for our trades of the wallet instead of admitting a president and an un elected bureaucrat who does not respect the congress or the constitution in order to continue to attack our authority to fight for the people at home that we represent.”
