Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday temporarily kept in place the Trump administration’s decision to freeze nearly $5 billion in foreign aid . The high court order is temporary, though it suggests that the justices will reverse a lower court ruling that withholding the funding was likely illegal.

Roberts acted on the administration’s emergency appeal to the Supreme Court in the case involving billions of dollars in congressionally approved aid. President Donald Trump said last month that he would not spend the money, invoking disputed authority that was last used by a president roughly 50 years ago.

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