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.

Washington state has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration for “unlawfully terminating billions of dollars in disaster mitigation funding.”

State prosecutors want to restore $4.5 billion in canceled funding and to declare that FEMA's acting administrator is serving "unlawfully."