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 order 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.

The Trump administration said it wants a US appeals court to freeze a court order to immediately pay “nearly $2 billion in taxpayer dollars” in foreign assistance funding.

A federal judge says the Trump administration has kept withholding foreign aid despite a court order and must at least temporarily restore the funding to programs worldwide.

U.S. District Judge Amir Ali grew impatient during a hearing with a lack of clear responses from the administration’s lawyers.

President Donald Trump’s restrictions on foreign aid and targeting of a key agency funding programs around the world may be offering an opening to China.

A federal judge has given the Trump administration less than two days to release billions of dollars in blocked funding for U.S. foreign aid

Judge Amir Ali said the Trump administration violated a court order about foreign aid and is ordering them to pay millions to nonprofits.

A federal judge in Washington on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to pay foreign aid funds to contractors and grant recipients by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday night, saying there was no sign that it had taken any steps to comply with his earlier order that the administration's freeze on the funds be lifted.