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The Monthslong Legal Battle to Save Foreign Aid
It was one of the first legal challenges to a Trump administration policy to reach the Supreme Court in February, and since then it has returned to the nation’s highest court twice. Over nearly nine months, the lawsuit challenging President Trump’s attempt to slash foreign aid funding has ricocheted around the federal judiciary but still has not reached a final resolution. It has been reviewed by 21 judges, spawned thousands of pages of filings and lumbered forward even after the administration dissolved the U.S. Agency for International Development, the government office responsible for disbursing much of the contested funding.