A D.C. court panel said foreign aid groups have no standing to sue President Donald Trump and his administration for refusing to spend funds allocated by Congress. But for the affected foreign aid organizations, the legal fight isn’t over.
Mitchell Warren, executive director of the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition — one of the leading groups attempting to sue the administration — told NOTUS that groups are petitioning for a rehearing in front of the full appeals court.
“We believe when the full court reviews this, they will find on our side that we do have standing,” Warren said. “And that indeed the president and the administration are wrong and that they are not allowed to ignore congressional power of the purse, which is what the Constitution itself says.”