Elon Musk, who is leading efforts by President Donald Trump to slash what they believe is wasteful government spending, blasted a federal court ruling that temporarily blocks one of the administration’s cost-cutting moves.

U.S. District Judge Angel Kelly put a temporary hold on cuts to research funding by the National Institutes of Health.

The ruling applies to 22 states that sued to block the funding cuts. Alabama was not one of those.

“A judge just blocked dropping the overhead charged on NIH grants from the outrageous 60% to a far more reasonable 15%,” Musk wrote under his pseudonym Harry Bolz on X.

“This judge is FORCING the CORRUPTION to CONTINUE.”

The cuts could cost the University of Alabama at Birmingham about $70 million a year, officials said Monday.

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The cuts apply to indirect costs, which helps pay for overhead at UAB and other institutions that receive NIH funding.

“Drastically lowering NIH indirect cost recovery jeopardizes life-saving research, and it would also result in job and economic loss in Birmingham and Alabama,” the university told AL.com in a statement.

The cuts, which took effect Monday, limit indirect funding for research projects, which covers costs such as equipment, staff, and utilities, to 15%.

Indirect funding rates have varied by institution.

UAB’s indirect cost rate is 48.5%, well above the 26% average the NIH says it pays on the billions of grants it disburses annually.