The United States Supreme Court has again sided with President Donald Trump in allowing him to freeze $4bn in foreign aid from being disbursed.

The ruling on Friday, which reverses a lower court’s order, is the latest victory for the Trump administration in its effort to overhaul the money the US provides to humanitarian and other efforts abroad.

It is also the latest example of the conservative-dominated top US court granting a broad interpretation of presidential power.

The aid in question had already been approved by Congress, but its authorisation was set to expire by September 30. Trump moved to freeze the aid in a process known as a “pocket rescission”, essentially running out the clock on it being spent.

The funds had been earmarked, in part, for United Nations peacekeeping op

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