Utah Sen. Mike Lee challenged the ruling, questioning the constitutional basis for judicial intervention in congressional legislation.

The court issued an injunction shielding ten Planned Parenthood affiliates from a provision in the budget bill to cut off funding for Medicaid contracting for poor women.

A day after a federal judge in Massachusetts blocked the Trump administration from ending Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, officials from Connecticut and 22 other states filed their own lawsuit to keep the clinics from losing federal dollars.