A federal judge on Friday barred the Trump administration from moving forward with a series of controversial spending cuts.

In the underlying case, Rhode Island leads a coalition of state plaintiffs against efforts to defund and "gut" the operations of four agencies that oversee library, business development, and mediation services, according to the 58-page complaint filed earlier this year.

In May, Chief U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell, Jr. , a Barack Obama appointee, issued a preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from moving forward with the proposed cuts, directing certain agency officials to rehire key staff and contractors and to disburse already-appropriated grants, among other forms of relief.

Since then, various efforts to limit the effect of the court's

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