Nonprofit groups and a coalition of attorneys general in 22 states and the District of Columbia are seeking a temporary restraining order on the Trump administration’s planned pause in the distribution of federal grant and loan money that was set to begin at 5 p.m. ET on Tuesday.

The pause, according to a memo from President Donald Trump’s Office of Management and Budget, is to allow the administration “time to review agency programs and determine the best uses of the funding for those programs consistent with the law and the President’s priorities.”

It also stated that agencies “must temporarily pause all activities related to obligation and disbursement” of all federal financial assistance that might be affected by Trump’s executive orders, including foreign aid, assistance to nongovernmental organizations, “woke gender ideology, and the green new deal.”

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