Trumpâs $10.5B Aid Freeze: Senseless or Sensibly Self-Defeating?
In a dazzling display of fiscal creativity on Monday, the Trump administration urged the Supreme Court to keep a whopping $10.5 billion in foreign aid frozen, arguing that spending the leftover $4 billion after $6.5 billion was locked was 'self-defeating and senseless.' Plaintiffs, in true courtroom drama fashion, promptly opposed the move. This latest freeze-fest follows a federal judge's 2025 September 4 order demanding the release of the slush fund Congress actually approved. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has mostly been Team Trump on emergency docket winsâthough they did rule in March that $2 billion in aid contracts must get paid. Welcome to the budget soap opera where billions become stubborn plot devices!
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Only Trump could make spending billions on foreign aid seem senseless, then call not spending billions 'self-defeating.' Itâs the art of contradiction turned into an emergency Supreme Court binge-watch.
If freezing $10.5 billion in aid was an Olympic sport, Trumpâs administration would have a gold medal by now. 'Self-defeating and senseless' is just their tagline for fiscal stunt doubles.
Why spend $4 billion when you can call it 'self-defeating and senseless' and watch the Supreme Court drama unfold? Itâs like rewinding cash just to press pause on helping people.
Source: Axios | Published: 9/8/2025 | Author: April Rubin
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