Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is joining other states in filing a motion to force the Trump administration to release funding from a freeze placed last week but put on hold by federal courts.

The motion contends the freeze is still in place, impacting programs ranging from the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program to HeadStart to federal housing and utility bill assistance as well as funding for the state’s Medicaid program.

“This funding is owed by law to the people of Arizona. Trump can try every trick he has up his sleeve to evade the constitution but I will be there to stop him,” Mayes said in a press release. “Arizonans who impacted by the Trump administration not complying with this court order, should report any difficulty accessing funds they are owed to my office.”

The motion argues the Trump administration is going against a temporary restraining order and continuing to impound funds that have been authorized for states by Congress. Federal officials contend certain funds, such as those under the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Improvement and Jobs Act, both passed under former President Joe Biden, are outside the scope of the restraining order.

“And, while it is imaginable that a certain amount of machinery would need to be re-tooled in order to undo the breadth of the Federal Funding Freeze, there is no world in which these scattershot outages, which as of this writing impact billions of dollars in federal funding across the Plaintiff States, can constitute compliance with this Court’s Order,” the motion states.

The motion came from Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Nevada, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin.

The motion said there continue to be ongoing disruptions in funding to the states from federal monies, despite a temporary restraining order placed on the freeze.

A copy of the motion is available here.