A federal judge in Manhattan Wednesday denied a motion from New York City seeking a temporary restraining order that would have required the Trump administration to return $80.5 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency migrant aid it clawed back in February.

U.S. Judge Jennifer Rearden, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, issued the ruling Wednesday afternoon in a case filed by city officials after the funds that were paid on Feb. 4 by FEMA were taken from a city bank account, reports Josh Russell of Courthouse News.

Rearden said the city did not show that irreparable harm happened when the government pulled back the grant money and that it could still recover the funding if it wins in its lawsuit filed after the money went missing from its bank accounts, according to Reuters.

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