Radio Free Asia has filed a suit against the United States Government to restore funding that was cut by the U.S. Agency for Global Media. The organization claims it did not have the right to stop the money.

Bloomberg Law reports that the complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It claimed Congress had appropriated funding for the news agency but not given the agency the power to withhold the funds.

According to the complaint, this defunding violated federal and constitutional law.

Radio Free Asia is one of the media outlets targeted by an executive order signed by Donald Trump. In the same order, President Donald Trump also designated the Open Technology Fund as a target. This organization monitors censorship.

Radio Free Asia reported the law firms Munger Tolles & Olson LLP & Democracy Forward had filed the lawsuit in its name.

RFA’s President and CEO Bay Fang released a statement in which he called the termination of funding illegal. He also said that the network was working under the authority of Congress and “remains dedicated to providing a counter-voice against the propaganda of China Communist Party and other authoritarian governments throughout Asia.”

She said that CCP was “happy to stop the funding for RFA, but I think we can prevent an illegal termination.”

The lawsuit names USAGM interim CEO Victor Morales, Kari Lake, Trump’s senior advisor to USAGM, Russell Vought as director of US Office of Management and Budget, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

Radio Free Asia suspended the majority of its Washington staff following the announcement of the funding suspension on March 15, 2019. The court has been asked to temporarily stop the funding cuts and allow Radio Free Asia to continue to receive the $35 million that Congress has allocated until September 30.

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth temporarily halted efforts by the Trump Administration to remove all federal funds from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Open Technology Fund.

Lake wrote to RFE/RL’s Chief Executive Steve Capus on Wednesday that USAGM had revoked her letter terminating the grant agreement. However, she added that the rescinded letter did not affect USAGM’s right to terminate the grant later if USAGM determined that it was appropriate to do so under applicable law.