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.

The attorneys “were not able to provide any specific examples of unfreezing funds,” Ali found.

Ali, a Biden appointee, said USAID has until Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. to satisfy its contract obligations. The judge wants evidence that this is taking place by noon on Wednesday. He also asked for all of the government’s internal correspondence regarding his orders.

The judge’s new demands come after he pressured the administration days ago to comply promptly with his order. Ali said at the time that holding Trump administration officials in contempt, a sanction that can carry penalties, such as fines, was not yet appropriate, but he still issued a stern warning.

“The Court was not inviting Defendants to continue the [funding] suspension while they reviewed contracts and legal authorities to come up with a new, post-hoc rationalization for the en masse suspension,” Ali wrote last week.

Some organizations that told the court they were suffering damages because of the federal funding freeze included a Jewish nonprofit group that provides humanitarian aid to refugees, a veteran-owned small business called Green Powered Technology, and Democracy International.

Another organization, DAI Global, which focuses on international development in dozens of countries, said it is waiting on a payment from USAID of more than $115 million in past-due invoices.

All the organizations said they were being forced to lay off employees and shutter offices because of USAID’s unpaid bills.

JUDGE SAYS TRUMP HAS NOT COMPLIED WITH RULING ON SUSPENSION OF FOREIGN AID

The Trump administration argued it is “diligently” working to review its contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements and that it believes that, so far, it has properly terminated agreements in accordance with their various terms.

The lawsuit comes after the Trump administration, on the premise that USAID’s budget had been severely mismanaged, laid off thousands of workers in an effort to dismantle the agency. Its leftover foreign aid programs would be rolled into the State Department, Trump has said.