A federal judge on Tuesday night refused to force the Trump administration to open a door to providing coronavirus relief funds to political consultants and lobbyists who contend they’ve been unfairly cut out of receiving aid amid the pandemic.

“The executive and legislative branches quickly responded to the COVID-19 crisis with this virtually unanimous legislation,” U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington wrote in an order published Tuesday. “For the judicial branch to intervene now and issue the requested injunction under these circumstances would not be in the public interest.”