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

According to the report, of the $5 bln to be returned to the US budget, $3.2 bln had been allocated to the US Agency for International Development, while the remainder was…

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.