WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday said the Trump administration can temporarily hold on to $4 billion in foreign aid funding approved by Congress, overturning a lower court’s order and continuing a struggle over who controls the nation’s purse strings. The one-page ruling from the emergency docket, signed by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., came just one day after the administration appealed the lower court’s ruling. While the original lawsuit over withheld foreign aid began in February and stemmed from an executive order, the Trump administration sent Congress a rescissions request covering some of the spending in late August. A Supreme pattern The U.S. Supreme Court has been repeatedly siding with the Trump administration and overturning lower court rulings, almost always with mere paragraph-length emergency orders that provide no explanation of the court’s constitutional reasoning. Roberts wrote “that the September 3, 2025 order of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, case Nos.