The restraining order, along with a similar directive by another judge from Friday, amounted to a rebuke of the move as an overreach that likely lacked legitimate authority.

The White House budget office Wednesday rescinded the federal aid freeze, according to multiple media reports citing an administration memo.

A judge in the nation’s capital will likely keep a temporary block on a Trump administration plan for a freeze on federal funding

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 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.