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.

A group of 20 mostly Democrat-led U.S. states filed a lawsuit today seeking to block the Trump administration from terminating a multibillion-dollar grant program that funds infrastructure upgrades to protect against natural disasters.

The federal grant program North Carolina and 19 other states want reinstated was expanded during the first Trump administration.