Trump's spending freeze order paused again by federal judge

Catch up quick: The White House ordered a "temporary pause" on federal funding on Tuesday that prompted intense confusion and backlash.

• AliKhan issued an initial temporary pause on the order last week, which was due to expire Monday.
• The Office of Management and Budget rescinded the memo on Wednesday, following AliKhan's order. However, the White House said pulling back the memo didn't mean withdrawing the funding freeze.

Zoom out: On Friday, a federal judge in Rhode Island also temporarily blocked the spending freeze.

• Judge John J. McConnell Jr. said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's social media posts claiming the freeze was still in effect despite withdrawing the order were grounds for the lawsuit to continue.

What they're saying: AliKhan said in her order that plaintiffs had proven certain funding sources outside of executive order parameters were inaccessible even after the OMB rescinded its memo.

• The government, AliKhan wrote, had "offered no rational explanation for why they needed to freeze all federal financial assistance."

• AliKhan added that the plaintiffs had proven that the injuries caused by the freeze were "sufficiently concrete" and "potentially catastrophic."
• "Each day that the pause continues to ripple across the country is an additional day that Americans are being denied access to programs that heal them, house them, and feed them," she added.

Go deeper: Tweet from Trump's press secretary justifies halting spending freeze, judge says