The lawsuit was filed by nonprofit groups over the cutoff of foreign assistance through the U.S. Agency for International Development and State Department.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday gave the Trump administration less than two days to release billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid, saying the administration had given no sign of complying with his nearly two-week-old court to ease its funding freeze.

The ruling marked the second the time a federal judge had pushed the Trump administration to act after finding that it had ignored an earlier order.