PHOENIX – Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said Monday her barrage of lawsuits against the Trump administration has saved the Grand Canyon State $1.5 billion.

“That’s money for Meals on Wheels, Head Start, Americorps, HIDTA (High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas),” Mayes told KTAR News 92.3 FM’s The Mike Broomhead Show after announcing Arizona’s 29th multistate legal action against the federal government this year.

Mayes, a Democrat, acknowledged that the number of lawsuits might seem unusually high. But she defended them as necessary and said she’d also sue a president from her own party who violated the law.

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