By Brendan Pierson
(Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to fully comply with a previous order lifting its broad freeze on federal spending, after a group of Democratic state attorneys general last week said that some funds remained frozen.
U.S. District Judge John McConnell in Providence, Rhode Island, ruled that all funding must be restored at least until he can hold a hearing on the states’ motion for a longer-term order.
The Trump administration had told states that it believed the order did not apply to certain environmental and infrastructure spending, and that some payments were delayed for “operational and administrative reasons.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
(Reporting By Brendan Pierson in New York; Editing by Mark Porter and Matthew Lewis)
