US Edition20 States Sue FEMA for Canceling Grant Program that Guards Against Natural Disasters
NORTH CAROLINA, UNITED STATES, JUL 16 – Twenty states sue FEMA over the unlawful shutdown of a $4.5 billion disaster mitigation grant program that protected communities and saved lives, citing violations of congressional authority and legal procedures.
- On Wednesday, North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson led a coalition of 20 states in suing FEMA over the cancellation of the $200 million BRIC program, which funds disaster mitigation projects in North Carolina.
- Since its launch, FEMA canceled nearly $4.5 billion in BRIC grants supporting almost 2,000 projects, but the administration ended the program in April.
- The complaint asserts that canceling BRIC breaches the post-Katrina law, noting the illegal decision made while FEMA Administrator Cameron Hamilton was unlawfully appointed.
- In a statement, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell said `‘By abruptly and unlawfully shutting down the BRIC programme, this administration is abandoning states and local communities’` and announced legal action.
- Communities across the country are delaying, scaling back or canceling hundreds of mitigation projects that relied on BRIC grants.
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