Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, College Park are fighting to protect millions of dollars in federal research funding, according to a lawsuit.

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from carrying out steep cuts to federal research funding provided to universities by the U.S. Department of Defense.

A group of American research universities has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, seeking to retain millions of dollars in research funding. The universities filed the suit Monday to challenge a decision made by the Defense Department in May that would cap reimbursement of indirect costs for research funded by the department at