(The Center Square) – Democratic attorneys general from California and 11 other jurisdictions won a temporary restraining order Tuesday preventing the Federal Emergency Management Agency from withholding over $233 million in the Homeland Security Grant Program.

Plaintiffs said that's over 50% of the money FEMA promised the states.

The order was issued by Judge Mary McElroy in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. That’s where the states’ lawsuit against FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security, requesting "injunctive and declaratory relief," was filed Monday. FEMA is part of Homeland Security.

The suit accuses the Trump administration of reallocating the funds to states with immigration policies that President Donald Trump prefers. The lawsuit cites Trump’s i

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