The Justice Department filed an emergency request to the Supreme Court on Monday, asking for the Trump administration to be permitted to maintain a freeze on $4 billion in foreign aid.

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.

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