A judge on Tuesday gave the Trump administration a 36-hour deadline to unfreeze foreign aid after government lawyers were unable to prove during a hearing that the administration had complied with an earlier court order to do so.

Judge Amir Ali said Justice Department attorneys could not demonstrate to the court that the government was abiding by the order he imposed this month requiring the United States Agency for International Development to unfreeze its funds to pay millions of dollars in outstanding bills to its contractors.