The decision of the Court of Appeals will allow the Trump administration to reduce billions in foreign aid

A Federal Court of Appeals has reversed the decision of a lower court, clearing the way for the Trump administration to reduce billions of foreign aid funds this year.

In a decision of 2-1 on Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the DC circuit annulled the decision of a lower court that prohibited the Trump administration from making drastic cuts to the USAID funds that Congress had already approved.

The Court avoided the substantive issue of whether the cuts were constitutional, instead of deciding that non -profit organizations demanded that the Trump administration lacked the position to present a case.

Judges Karen Henderson and Gregory Katsas, appointed by Presidents George Hw Bush and Donald Trump, respectively, determined that only the head of the Government’s responsibility office has the authority to sue under the Payment Control Law.

“The District Court made an error when granting that repair because the beneficiaries lack a cause of action to press their claims,” the majority wrote.

USAID fund demand had been one of the first legal successes important for non -profit organizations that challenge the Trump administration, which ordered the suspension of grants that did not comply with the president’s priorities.

After the US district judge, Amir Ali, issued a temporary restriction order in February that blocked Trump’s executive order to enter into force, both the DC circuit court and the Supreme Court of the United States were put on the side of non -profit organizations, denying a request from the Trump administration to block an order that applies the tro.

In a dissident opinion issued with the ruling on Wednesday, Judge Florence Pan, appointed by Biden, criticized his colleagues for ignoring the concern that the financing cuts were unconstitutional and, therefore, damaged “the rule of law and the structure of our government itself.”

“In the background, the acceptance and facilitation of the illegal behavior of the Executive derails the” carefully elaborated system of controlled and balanced power “that serves as the” greater security against tyranny: the accumulation of excessive authority in a single branch, “he wrote.