The AIDS Vaccine case offers this Supreme Court its first opportunity to weigh in on Trump’s efforts to halt federal spending. The Justice Department’s narrow arguments suggest that, at the very least, Trump’s lawyers would prefer to delay a broader showdown over whether Trump can simply cancel any funding he wants.

Foreign aid organizations asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to require President Donald Trump's administration to promptly pay them for work they already performed for the government, as a federal judge had ordered.

Chief Justice John Roberts' order delayed a lower court's deadline for the Trump administration to release funding to USAID by the end of Wednesday.