A coalition of states — including New York and New Jersey, which just experienced flash flooding that killed two — are suing the Trump administration over its abrupt cancellation of hundreds of millions of dollars of natural disaster preparedness funding.
The coalition of 19 Democratic attorneys general and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro accused the Federal Emergency Management Agency of violating “core separation of powers principles” by canceling funding for disaster resilience that had been directed by Congress and already awarded by FEMA to the states.
The lawsuit comes just weeks after devastating floods killed more than 100 people in Kerr County, Texas, and during a 2025 summer that has been drenched by a record-breaking 1,200 reports of floods across the country, more than double the average.