A U.S. judge on Tuesday extended an order blocking President Donald Trump's administration from instituting a sweeping freeze on trillions of dollars in federal funding by pausing grants, loans and other financial support.

Afghan refugees able to get to the U.S. during the first week of the Trump administration find they are on their own without promised assistance.

A federal judge on Friday seemed likely to extend his earlier block on the Trump administration's freeze on federal grants and other financial assistance, suggesting the broad initiative was beyond the powers of federal agencies.

Companies that get federal grants or loans usually sign a legally binding agreement and depend on getting reimbursed. The new administration has upended that expectation.

The states told U.S. District Court Chief Judge John McConnell Jr., that the Trump Administration’s threat to freeze trillions of dollars of grants and loans budgeted to fund everything from homelessness to health care. In some cases, even a delay of hours or days, the lawyers said, would cause “irreparable harm” to communities.

Some refugees who had been approved to come to the US had their travel canceled on short notice, and families who have waited years to reunite have had to remain apart, the lawsuit said.

A Seattle-based federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s effort to suspend the United States’s refugee program, siding with resettlement groups that argued the move unlawfully disrupted the system Congress established for admitting refugees.

A federal judge in Seattle has dealt the Trump administration a blow, blocking its efforts to suspend refugee resettlement into the United States.

A federal judge in Seattle ordered the Trump administration to restart the refugee-admissions program that legally resettles people from across the globe, which the president had ordered shut down on his first day in office.

A federal judge has agreed to continue blocking President Donald Trump’s administration from freezing grants and loans potentially totaling trillions of dollars.