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A court victory for Trump’s foreign aid cuts, briefly explained

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14.08.2025
President Donald Trump in the State Dining Room of the White House on August 8, 2025. | Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration’s decision to cancel billions in foreign aid can stand, a federal appeals court said today, in a major blow to global humanitarian aid.

What did the court actually decide? A three-judge panel on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the plaintiffs in the case weren’t eligible to bring the suit in the first place.

The majority found that only the........

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