U.S. District Judge John McConnell in Providence, Rhode Island, ruled on April 4 that Republican President Donald Trump's administration had violated his order because FEMA had halted disbursements since early February for a "manual review" of grants without any clear end date.

The Trump administration will respond in court to Harvard University's lawsuit seeking to block a federal funding freeze imposed after the institution rejected a list of White House demands that it said would undermine its independence,

President Donald Trump’s campaign to pressure elite universities into making a wide range of policy changes met its first major resistance when Harvard University sued the US government for freezing billions of dollars in federal funding.