A federal appeals court will allow Donald Trump’s administration to continue withholding billions of dollars in foreign aid, dealing a major blow to aid groups and potentially teeing up a critical Supreme Court test to the president’s attempts to control funding approved by Congress.

Two of three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit concluded that grant recipients challenging the freeze did not meet the requirements for a preliminary injunction restoring the flow of money.

A federal appeals court has reversed a lower court's ruling, clearing the way for the Trump administration to cut billions in foreign aid funding this year.