A senior Trump administration official with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) instructed subordinates Tuesday to freeze its grant funding on Monday—contradicting a federal injunction upheld just hours earlier by an appeals court panel.

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 Nueces County nonprofit has paused some of its services as it waits for the Trump administration's temporary freeze on federal grants to be resolved.

Some groups said their funding was still blocked, even after the freeze had been rescinded. Others saw their money reinstated but worried about future cuts.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) slammed the National Institutes of Health’s decision to slash billions of dollars in “indirect” costs for biomedical research funding, calling the move mandated by the Trump administration “devastating” and a “poorly conceived directive.”

President Donald Trump's administration is now openly defying a federal judge's order pertaining to his freeze of federal grant money. NBC News reported Tuesday that a senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) ordered subordinates to halt the disbursement of millions of dollars in federal grant funding.