A federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration‘s efforts to pause federal aid through an Office of Management and Budget memorandum Wednesday, upholding a lower court’s ruling.

The Trump administration attempted to pursue a blanket pause of federal aid disbursements pending a review of the various spending items in January, but the order was blocked by a federal circuit court after several lawsuits, including one by more than a dozen state attorneys general.

Despite the Trump administration rescinding the memo, the court still pushed forward with halting the blanket pause.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit denied the Trump administration’s motion for a stay pending appeal of the lower court’s decision. The three-judge panel, made up of appointees by former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, ruled that the blanket pause would cause irreparable harm to the states in the litigation.

“Even if we were to set aside the harms to the Plaintiff-States’ residents, the District Court still found a

number of harms that the Plaintiff-States themselves would irreparably suffer,” the Wednesday court ruling reads. “These harms included the obligation of new debt; the inability to pay existing debt; impediments to planning, hiring, and operations; and disruptions to research projects by state universities.”

The defendants do not contend that these harms are not “substantial” or “irreparable,” except by asserting that the plaintiff states “will receive any funds that agencies are legally obligated to disburse,” the appeals court ruling continues.

The Trump administration could appeal the federal appeals court ruling to the Supreme Court.

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The ruling came on the same day a federal appeals court denied the Trump administration’s bid to lift a pause on its use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members.

Temporary restraining orders and unfavorable rulings from federal courts have slowed some of the Trump administration’s signature actions, including its efforts to cut the size of the executive branch through the Department of Government Efficiency.