SEATTLE (AP) — President Donald Trump’s plan to pull federal funding from institutions that provide gender-affirming care for transgender youth will remain blocked on a long-term basis under a federal judge's ruling in Seattle late Friday.

U.S. District Court Judge Lauren King previously granted a two-week restraining order after the Democratic attorneys general of Washington, Oregon and Minnesota sued the Trump administration — Colorado has since joined the case.

King's temporary order expired Friday, and she held arguments that day before issuing a preliminary injunction blocking most of Trump's plan pending a final decision on the merits of the case. She rejected a portion of the states' challenge regarding the order's protections against female genital mutilation, on grounds that “no credible threat of prosecution exists” in such cases.

Two of Trump's executive orders are at issue in the case.

School divisions across Westman are feeling the same tension in their budgets as the Brandon School Division this week as they troubleshoot ways to pay for increasingly expensive staff.

The Province of Manitoba signed a contract last year that created a three per cent pay raise to all teachers in anglophone schools this September. The province increased funding to school divisions to support it, but the support leaves some spending in the hands of local school divisions.

In the case of Brandon, part of the solution was to introduce a 6.78 per cent property tax increase.

After the BSD approved its budget this week, the Sun reached out to school divisions in Westman to learn if they also struggled to balance rising staff costs. Spokespersons from Beautiful Plains, Turtle Mountain, Fort La Bosse and Rolling River confirmed the divisions are also working to make space for rising staff costs in their upcoming budgets.