A federal judge on Thursday said he stood ready to enforce an order he issued blocking U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from freezing federal grants, loans and other financial assistance after Democratic-led states said billions of dollars in funding was still being tied up.

The ruling, issued at the request of several advocacy groups, meant the policy is now subject to two temporary restraining orders.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., extended a block on President Trump’s widespread federal funding pause amid concerns the administration was still moving ahead despite two previous

A Washington, D.C. federal judge on Monday extended a temporary restraining order preventing the Trump administration from carrying out a plan to temporarily freeze funds across the federal government, warning that the funding pause could have “catastrophic” impacts on people across the country.

A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to temporarily stop its freeze on federal assistance, allowing aid to continue flowing to nonprofit organizations and other entities after the funding was targeted by the White House budget office last week.

A federal judge in Washington on Monday extended a temporary ban against President Donald Trump's sweeping pause on trillions of dollars in federal spending while she weighs a lawsuit challenging its legality.

A federal judge on Monday extended an order blocking the Trump administration from enforcing a sweeping freeze on federal grants, rejecting arguments from the Justice Department that the case had become moot following the withdrawal of an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) directive.