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.

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell is suing the Trump administration, accusing it of unlawfully cutting billions in disaster preparedness funding.Campbell joins a 20-state coalition that is pushing back against the shutdown of FEMA's Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program,