A federal judge will consider a request to further block President Donald Trump’s administration from freezing grants and loans potentially totaling trillions of dollars.

A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated an order that halted a sweeping freeze on federal funding and ordered the White House to “take every step necessary” to release federally appropriated funds.

The United States on Friday proposed a draft United Nations resolution to mark the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a move that pits Washington against an effort by Kyiv and European allies to have their own text adopted by the General Assembly.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper decided Thursday he could not grant a motion from unions representing the workers to stop the layoffs, though he acknowledged chaos caused by Trump's blitz of second-term executive actions.