Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield joined a 12-state coalition in a lawsuit filed yesterday against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Secretary David Richardson, who, again, interfered with emergency and homeland security grants already promised to the states.

Oregon Lawsuit To Preserve Emergency & Homeland Security Funding

Several attempts by the Trump administration to reduce FEMA’s role and shift the burden of emergency management to the States have been made since Donald Trump took office in January.

The administration has denied or restricted requests for emergency declarations, withheld grant funding, and imposed on recipients of long-standing FEMA grants irrelevant and unconstitutional terms.

AG Rayfield

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