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Court rules to allow foreign aid cuts.

The Trump administration can cut billions of dollars approved by Congress for overseas assistance, an appeals court ruled on Wednesday. The funding was suspended as part of the government’s efforts to dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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