The White House notified Congress that it plans to use a legally untested maneuver to circumvent lawmakers and claw back more money for foreign aid programs.

The conservative majority has been largely receptive to the administration’s claims of executive power.

The court voted not to revisit a fight over billions in frozen funds, but simultaneously revised an earlier order to give nonprofits that sued a narrow path forward in the case.

The last time a president used the tool was in 1977, and if standardised by the White House, it could bypass Congress on key spending choices.

The White House notified Congress that it plans to use a legally untested maneuver to circumvent lawmakers and claw back more money for foreign aid programs.

White House seeks to run out clock on funding after already slashing billions in aid in move decried as overreach.

The president is using a controversial manoeuvre known as a pocket recession to cut billions in foreign aid programmes.