PHOENIX — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, along with a coalition of 19 other states, won a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from cutting the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) disaster preparedness funding.

The Thursday court ruling prevents the Trump administration’s attempt to have FEMA shut down its bipartisan Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, which purpose is to protect communities from natural disasters before they happen. The decision also requires that the critical funds from the program be restored.

The BRIC program is the core of FEMA’s mitigation efforts that Congress mandated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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