Trump appeals foreign aid freeze to Supreme Court

• The plaintiffs, which include health and AIDS advocacy groups, submitted an opposition to the administration's request, the lawyer told Axios.

Driving the news: The government had planned to spend $6.5 billion of the $10.5 billion in question, the Trump administration said.

• Allocating the remaining $4 billion would be "self-defeating and senseless," the filing stated.

What they're saying: "President Trump was given a resounding mandate to put America First, and the administration continues to maintain the President's right to execute his foreign policy agenda," White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said.

Zoom in: The Trump administration is looking to freeze the funding via a "pocket rescission," when a president asks Congress to rescind funds close to the end of a fiscal year.

• The appeal to the Supreme Court claimed that the recent preliminary injunction "irreparably harms the executive branch."

Zoom out: The Trump administration has been largely victorious on the Supreme Court's emergency docket.

• In March, though, the Supreme Court ruled that nearly $2 billion in foreign aid contracts had to be paid.

Flashback: The Trump administration in March moved to dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the purview of DOGE's cost-cutting mission.

Go deeper: What is pocket rescission, Trump's bid to cancel $5 billion in foreign aid?

Editor's note: This story was updated with additional context and a White House comment.