FEMA announced in April that it was ending the funding to eliminate “waste, fraud and abuse.” The program saved taxpayers more than $150 billion over 20 years, the plaintiffs said.

States allege the Trump administration illegally ended FEMA's BRIC program, halting billions in disaster mitigation funding and putting storm-prone communities at risk.

Washington state has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration for “unlawfully terminating billions of dollars in disaster mitigation funding.”