Federal judge stopped Trump administration On Tuesday, funds were transferred from a multi-billion-dollar grant program designed to protect communities from natural disasters.
Boston’s U.S. District Court Judge Richard Stearns issued a preliminary injunction to prevent the government from allocating funds allocated to buildings to buildings’ resilient infrastructure and community (BRIC) programs to achieve other purposes.
Twenty countries led by major Democratic Party Prosecuting the Government Last month, the Federal Emergency Administration (FEMA) lacked the power to cancel the BRICS plan without Congress’ approval.
FEMA is part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Neither agency immediately responded to a request for comment.
The BRICS Plan was created in the first semester of Donald Trump in 2018, helping state and local governments protect key infrastructure such as roads and bridges flood,,,,, hurricane and other disasters.
According to the lawsuit, FEMA has approved approximately $4.5 billion in grants for nearly 2,000 projects (mainly in coastal states).
But the agency announced in April that it would end the plan, calling it wasteful, invalid and politicized.
Stearns said that while FEMA does not seem to have cancelled grants since canceling grants, states do not have to wait until prosecution after losing funds, and the cancellation of new grants suggests that FEMA will eventually shut down the final closure is a convergence.
He also said that if the BRICS program is over, the states will show real opportunities for irreparable harm.
“It is great to ensure that the government follows the inherent interests of the law and the potential hardships caused from the reoccupied funds,” the judge wrote.
“The BRICS Program is designed to prevent natural disasters and save lives,” Stearns added. “The potential difficulties for the government are minimal by comparison.”
Led by Massachusetts and Washington, the 20 states indicted also include Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Carolina, Oregon, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Vermont and Wisconsin.
The attorney general’s offices in Massachusetts and Washington did not immediately comment.
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