A federal appeals court panel declined on Thursday to rehear a case challenging the Trump administration’s bid to withhold billions of dollars in foreign aid but offered a narrow way for the group of contractors and nonprofit organizations to continue their legal challenge in a lower court.

The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied a rehearing weeks after a three-judge panel on the court allowed the Trump administration to freeze the billions in foreign aid funds approved by Congress, reversing a lower district court’s previous ruling. The decision marked a victory for the Trump administration, days after it asked the Supreme Court to affirm the appeals court panel’s Aug. 13 ruling to keep the funds frozen, with the full appeals court’s Thursday orde

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