(The Center Square) — The Trump administration has been given another week to make its case to withhold more than $33 million in counter-terrorism funds for New York City's transit system.

U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan has extended a temporary restraining order blocking the Department of Homeland Security from clawing back the grant funding approved by Congress for the Metropolitan

Transportation Authority until at least Oct. 22, as the case plays out in court. Kaplan's previous order was set to expire on Wednesday.

New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit last month to block the federal cuts to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Rail and Transit Security Grant Program. The program was created after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks to protect the nation

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