Hi, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. I'm Ali Valshi in for Nicole Wallace. We are following

multiple developments in what has emerged as the single biggest roadblock to the Trump

administration's agenda in its first few weeks. Action by the courts. Breaking this afternoon, a federal judge in Rhode Island ruled that the Trump administration's agenda in its first few weeks. Action by the courts.

Breaking this afternoon, a federal judge in Rhode Island ruled that the Trump administration was

violating a court order that restored billions of dollars of federal aid, making it clear

that the administration must, quote, immediately restore frozen funding.

And at the very top of the ruling, the judge demands that, quote,

all orders and judgments of courts must be complied with promptly, end quote. If the administration

wanted to freeze funding for a specific program, the judge said they would have to go through

him and ask for an exception to his restraining order. Now, this ruling is just one of the

many flashpoints between Team Trump and a motley crew of Democrats, activists, unions, and others opposed

to the administration. Forty lawsuits have been brought in all. Another legal battle is unfolding

over the federal payment system at the Treasury Department, which effectively acts

as the government's checkbook, distributing funds to people and to state governments. Just to give you a

sense of this, this payment system spent $6.75 trillion in the last fiscal year. It's 90% of all payments

made to anyone by the U.S. government.

A federal judge on Saturday blocked Elon Musk and his team from accessing the system,

citing the risk of, quote, irreparable harm and the possibility that the system would be more vulnerable to hacking and that sensitive information will be stolen.

The judge ordering any information that was downloaded by Musk and the Doge program to be

destroyed. The suit was brought by 18 Blue State Attorneys General. One of the plaintiffs,

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin, said that the injunction by the judge meant that,

quote, the world's richest man has been stopped from stealing your data, end quote. The Justice Department has appealed that order that blocks Elon Musk and Doge, but the public

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