Happening now, breaking news, the Supreme Court rejecting President Trump's plan to keep billions in foreign aid frozen.

I'm Pamela Brown.

We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in the situation room.

This is CNN breaking news. And we begin with breaking news from the nation's highest court in a 5-4 ruling the Supreme

Court has rejected the Trump administration's request to keep foreign aid frozen.

The billions of dollars in aid had been approved by Congress.

Here with us to break all of this down its very, very significance, and its chief legal

affairs correspondent Paula Reid, this was an incredibly fast decision by the U.S. Supreme

Court.

It was and it's rare that the Supreme Court drops a decision on us at

nine o'clock in the morning. And look, this decision was pretty technical, but it really

reveals a lot about the divides within the court itself. This is the second time that Trump's

efforts to reshape the federal government have gone up to the high court. And here specifically,

the Trump administration was asking the court to keep foreign aid frozen.

But the court declined to do that.

They actually sent that whole issue back down

to the lower court to decide if those funds need to be released.

Now, this is the second time that the Supreme Court

has declined to intervene on Trump's behalf. But I want to note the larger

questions about what Trump can and cannot do with Doge, with this kind of foreign aid, those

questions have not been answered. The Supreme Court has not weighed in on what we call it the

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