One office in the Agriculture Department show how efforts to comply with Trump’s DEI order have halted some grant payments, even as judges have ordered an end to its funding freeze.

Companies that get federal grants or loans usually sign a legally binding agreement and depend on getting reimbursed. The new administration has upended that expectation.

A sliver of the money the USDA owes farmers is released after a Trump administration freeze. But much more remains in limbo, despite court ruling.