A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from dismantling Voice of America, a government-funded news organization that President Trump has accused of being biased against him, and mandated that its journalists be allowed to resume their work.

The judge, Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, also ordered the administration to halt its effort to shut down two other federally funded outlets, Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks.

The judge’s carefully worded decision appeared aimed at closing loopholes in previous court rulings that allowed Trump officials to keep the Voice of America newsroom shuttered and its programming on hold. Voice of America, founded in 1942, had operated without interruption until March 15, a day after Mr. Trump signed an executive order seeking to gut its parent organization, the U.S. Agency for Global Media.

Mr. Trump has attacked Voice of America as “the voice of radical America,” and accused the outlet, which delivers news to countries with limited press freedom — including Russia, China and Iran — of spreading “anti-American” and partisan “propaganda.”

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Kari Lake, a close ally of Mr. Trump whom he hired as special adviser to the media agency, declared the news outlet “unsalvageable.” She also claimed the media agency and its newsrooms were rampant with “waste, fraud and abuse,” without providing details on how taxpayer money was being misused.

The executive order dismantling the outlet’s parent agency appeared to test the bounds of Mr. Trump’s authority, as Congress established it as independent and moved in 2020 to limit the power of its presidentially appointed leadership. Judge Lamberth is overseeing multiple court challenges to Mr. Trump’s order brought by Voice of America journalists and organizations that promote press freedoms abroad.

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