North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson joined nearly 20 other states in filing a lawsuit against FEMA on Wednesday. The federal agency terminated hundreds of flood mitigation grants in April. But last week,

Over a dozen attorneys general from Democratic-led states are suing the Federal Emergency Management Agency for cutting bipartisan approved funding for natural disaster response.

Twenty Democratic-led states have filed a lawsuit against the Federal Emergency Management Agency over the cancellation of a disaster mitigation grant program

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.

Twenty Democratic-led states are suing FEMA over the cancellation of a grant program for disaster mitigation, accusing the Trump administration of acting illegally.

The administration called the program “wasteful” and “politicized” when announcing its termination. The states argue it’s highly effective.

A coalition of states — including New York and New Jersey, which just experienced flash flooding that killed two — are suing the Trump administration over its abrupt cancellation of hundreds of millions of dollars of natural disaster preparedness funding.