A federal judge barred the Trump administration Saturday from carrying out deportations under a sweeping 18th century law that the president invoked just hours earlier to speed removal of Venezuelan gang members from the United States.

A federal judge in Washington D.C. has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act, a rarely invoked 1798 law, hours after the White House issued an executive order.

A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump from using a 227-year-old law meant to protect the US during wartime to carry out mass deportations of Venezuelans.

The Senate passed the bill 54-46 on Friday. The Democrats who voted to pass the funding bill were Schumer and Sens. John Fetterman (D-PA), Angus King (I-VT), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Gary Peters (D-MI), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH).

President Donald Trump has signed a Republican-led stopgap measure to keep the government funded, White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Harrison Fields said on social media on Saturday afternoon.