U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan temporarily halted President Donald Trump's plan to freeze federal grants and loans.

The order is in response to a lawsuit that says the freezing of billions of dollars in already approved funding violates the law.

Attorney General Andrea Campbell and prosecutors from other states planned to sue President Donald Trump after his administration issued a directive to pause the distribution of federal funding.

Federal agencies have been instructed to assess their financial aid programs to determine which ones might be impacted.

It was a few minutes before news broke that a judge had blocked the Trump administration's freeze on federal funding. In his remarks, Miller said that a pause on federal funding would allow the government to get "credit control".

A judge temporarily blocked implementation of a sweeping White House effort to pause potentially trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and other financial-assistance programs, a directive that created chaos as states struggled to access funding portals dealing with Medicaid,

Advocacy groups for nonprofits, health care and small business fought to block the memo they argued could lead to 'catastrophic' harm cutting funding.

The federal government fell into chaos Tuesday as officials braced for potential interruptions to programs that range from protecting food safety to responding to natural disasters.

Wisconsin is one of nearly two dozen states joining a lawsuit to prevent the pause of federal grants and loans, Gov. Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul announced Tuesday. The lawsuit said the move would jeopardize federal benefits and investments for health and childcare services,