A federal judge ruled on Friday that Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's administration violated a court order by halting Federal Emergency Management Agency's disbursement of millions of dollars in grant funding to states.

A federal judge wrote in an order on Friday that FEMA's manual review process was in violation of a previous court order.

The judge, James E. Boasberg, said he was likely to wait until next week to rule on whether the White House was in contempt of court for having ignored his order.