Democratic States Sue FEMA Over Scrapping Pre-Disaster Grant Program

July 17, 2025
Democratic-led states are suing the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) regarding what they say is an illegal termination of a pre-disaster mitigation program that supporters say boosts climate resilience efforts, with Trump officials re-allocating the program’s funds to post-disaster relief as part of a broader overhaul of the agency. “[E]very state in the nation is relying on this program,” the states write in a July 16 complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. “All that changed...

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