A U.S. judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to fully comply with a previous order lifting its broad freeze on federal spending, after a group of 23 Democratic state attorneys general last week said that some funds remained frozen.

The Trump administration on Monday appealed a federal judge’s order requiring the full restoration of all previously frozen federal spending, escalating a legal battle over the administration’s budgetary freeze.

Agencies continue to suspend funding, despite multiple court orders blocking the federal freeze. Experts say the Trump administration’s actions set the stage for challenges to Congress’ authority — and the limits of the presidency.

A federal judge has found the Trump administration hasn’t fully followed his order to unfreeze federal spending and has ordered the White House to release all money.

A federal judge on Monday ruled that the Trump administration has not entirely complied with a court order to lift the federal spending freeze. Why it matters: U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell Jr.

The withdrawal of the federal freeze was a stunning about-face for President Donald Trump’s White House, which has so far pushed the envelope to reshape the federal government, sowing chaos and confusion in firing career civil servants, pausing foreign aid programs and offering federal workers a buyout.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding tapped for Colorado climate and health projects is still being withheld by the Trump administration, state and federal officials say, despite a

Several executive orders Trump signed last week pause or end some federal funding. Those executive orders, which remain in place, include the freezing of foreign aid, all funds to federal grantees who received money for DEI-related purposes and all funds appropriated through the Inflation Reduction Act.

A U.S. judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to fully comply with a previous order lifting its broad freeze on federal spending.