A US federal judge on Tuesday ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to comply with a temporary order preventing it from pausing foreign assistance funding issued earlier this month, and gave the State Department until Wednesday night to pay all bills for work completed before February 13, CBS News reports.

US District Judge Amir Ali granted a motion to enforce his temporary restraining order from February 13. It required the State Department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to restore foreign-assistance funds for contracts and other awards while proceedings continue in a case brought by a group of businesses, nonprofits and organizations that do foreign aid work.

The contractors had argued that they have been cut off from federal dollars or forced to stop their work because of Mr. Trump's executive action—and a subsequent directive from Secretary of State Marco Rubio—that froze foreign development aid for 90 days.

Under Ali's ruling, the State Department and USAID must pay any invoices and drawdown requests owed before February 13 by midnight Wednesday.

At an emergency hearing Tuesday, a Justice Department lawyer was unable to provide specifics on what steps the Trump administration was taking to restore funding for foreign aid programs.

The lawyer for the nonprofits and businesses said there have been "zero directives" from USAID with respect to the unfreezing of foreign assistance funds. He added that the government still has to make payments that are owed, even on contracts that have been canceled or suspended in the past few days.