The filing to the high court on its emergency docket came after the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declined to pause a lower court’s ruling that ordered the government to spend billions of dollars in congressionally-approved foreign aid by the end of the month.
Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued in the petition to the high court that the district court is attempting to force the spending of funds President Donald Trump is seeking to cancel via a “pocket rescission.” A pocket rescission is when a president sends a rescission request to Congress at the end of the fiscal year so that the funds will expire before the legislature can consider the request.
“While proposed rescissions are pending, Presidents do not
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