A court order blocking President Donald Trump's freeze on trillions of dollars in government financial assistance will remain in place for now, a federal appeals court said on Wednesday. The ruling by the Boston-based 1st U.

A court order blocking US President Donald Trump's freeze on trillions of dollars in government financial assistance will remain in place for now, a federal appeals court said.

Federal appeals courts are pushing back against the Trump administration’s attempts to revive its freeze on federal grants and loans and its firing of government workers. On Wednesday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rebuffed an emergency motion by the Office of Personnel Management to move forward on terminating “probationary” employees — generally those who have served less than one to two years — at six agencies,