The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow it to freeze billions of dollars in foreign aid, potentially setting up the biggest test yet of the president’s bid to assert sweeping authority over federal spending.

The emergency filing in the rapidly moving case comes after a federal appeals court upheld a preliminary injunction requiring Trump officials to spend the money for food, medicine and development assistance before it begins to expire at the end of the fiscal year Sept. 30.

Since beginning his second term in January, President Donald Trump has claimed broad powers to refuse to spend congressionally allocated money for transportation projects, health research, education, “sanctuary cities” and more, saying the spending was wasteful or not aligned with the ad

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