Associate White House counsel Grace Pastor told Newsmax on Thursday that the federal appeals court ruling allowing the Trump administration to cut billions in foreign aid “is a great legal victory for the American taxpayer.”
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday ruled 2-1 to overrule a lower court, finding that nonprofit groups had no legal standing to sue the Trump administration for refusing to release money allocated by Congress to USAID, the international aid, disaster relief, and economic development program started in 1961.
Pastor said on Newsmax’s “National Report” that “The fact that nonprofits had sued the Trump administration for issuing a funding freeze on foreign aid that was against American interests, just goes to the heart of the battle we’ve been facing in the court system.”
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