A federal judge paused cuts that the Trump administration had made to funding for public health research, but Monday’s temporary restraining order will apply only in the 22 Democratic-led states that brought a lawsuit challenging the reduction in funding.

Key Responsibilities: The CDC is tasked with tracking, managing and responding to threats to human health. Among their duties, agency employees conduct and publish scientific research, advise health practitioners and the public on issues like vaccinations and illness prevention, and aid communities grappling with outbreaks of infectious disease.

A federal judge has directed harsh criticism at the Trump administration for removing countless public health web pages and websites, ordering them restored by midnight, and suggesting their deletion may have risked violating federal law.

A federal judge has told government agencies to restore public access to health-related webpages and datasets they removed to comply with an executive order by President Donald Trump.

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to restore certain public health webpages and datasets that federal health agencies had wiped from the internet in recent days.

The decision by U.S. District Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, came after a testy Monday afternoon hearing.