New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin is taking on President Trump once again, this time filing a new lawsuit over the cutting of funds for medical and public health research.

In the court filing, Platkin joined 21 other attorneys general to sue the Trump administration, the U.S. Department of Health and the National Institutes of Health.

The group is suing over the Trump administration's attempts to cut funding for biomedical research that funds lab faculty and infrastructure costs at universities and research institutions.

They include Rutgers University, which says the new policy will have a destabilizing financial impact on their medical research and that the cap is effectively a $22 million cut in the university's annual budget.

Plotkin and the other attorneys general argued the funding is part of an executive agreement that the Trump administration is now trying to illegally toss out.

In their arguments, the group points to a law passed by Congress during President Trump's first administration that prevented an earlier attempt to cut research funding.

In a statement, Platkin called the funding cuts a, quote, direct attack on our state, which has long led the nation in medical and health innovations.

The group is asking a judge for an immediate order barring the administration from implementing the cuts.