U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell said the government has not restored funding in several programs despite his Jan. 31 order temporarily halting the freeze.

The administration is still freezing federal funds in violation of a judicial order stopping it from doing so.

A federal judge on Monday ruled that the Trump administration has not entirely complied with a court order to lift the federal spending freeze.

Clear and unambiguous.” That’s how a federal judge in Rhode Island is describing his prior block of a federal funding freeze. Despite the perceived clarity of Chief Judge John McConnell Jr.’s Jan. 31 order granting the request of 23 Democratic attorneys general,

The order comes after Vice President JD Vance posted on social media that “Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.”

U.S. District Chief Judge John McConnell Jr. of Rhode Island ordered federal agencies to restore funding that continues to be frozen.

The funding cuts would affect medical and scientific research at institutions including the UC and CSU systems, according to the AG's office.

A federal judge temporarily halted the Trump administration's radical changes to how the National Institutes of Health pays for biomedical research, putting on hold a plan to slash research funding paid out by the federal government.

Attorneys general from 22 states sued the Trump administration on Monday, seeking to freeze a plan that would cap National Institutes of Health payments covering overhead at universities and medical research centers.

The lawsuit, filed Monday in US District Court for Massachusetts, was co-led by Andrea Campbell and asserts that the Trump administration’s changes violate the Administrative Procedure Act.