Welcome to the News Hour. A dramatic move by President Trump tonight, he's trying to single-handedly block nearly $5 billion in foreign aid already approved by Congress.

And he's doing it by invoking a little-known power play called a pocket rescission, effectively cutting lawmakers out of the process.

That is when a president asks Congress to cancel funds

so close to the end of the fiscal year that Congress can't act on the request and the funds expire.

In this instance, $3.2 billion would be cut from development assistance, along with $838 million

from peacekeeping efforts, $520 million in contributions to the UN, and $322 million from the State Department's Democracy Fund.

The Republican Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Susan Collins, publicly criticized the request,

writing in a statement that, quote, any effort to rescind

appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.

Missouri's Republican governor is calling lawmakers into a special session to redraw the

state's congressional maps. Mike Kehoe's announcement is just the latest move in a nationwide

battle over redistricting

ahead of next year's midterm elections. Just hours earlier in Texas...

I'm about to sign the law that creates a one big, beautiful map that ensures...

Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a new voting map designed to help Republicans gain five more seats in next year's

midterms.

An emergency hearing about President Trump's firing of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook

concluded today with no immediate ruling from the district judge.

Cook's attorney left the courthouse in Washington, D.C. after more than two hours of arguments.

He urged the judge to allow Cook to stay on the Fed board, underscoring that Trump could

soon begin the process of filling her seat.

The president fired Cook on Monday, citing allegations of mortgage fraud.

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