A federal judge prevented the Trump administration from reallocating billions of dollars to a FEMA disaster prevention program on Tuesday.
Judge Richard Stearns of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted a preliminary injunction blocking allocated funds from being steered away from FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program. The program awards grants to fund projects in states that aim to mitigate disaster risks before they happen through infrastructure improvements.
“Although the Government equivocates about whether it has, in fact, ended the BRIC program, the States’ evidence of steps taken by FEMA to implement the announced termination portend the conclusion that a determination has in fact been made and that FEMA is inching towards a fait accompli,” Stearns wrote in the order.
“The agency has
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