The Federal Emergency Management Agency building in Washington, D.C., is pictured on Nov. 25, 2024. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom)
North Carolina’s attorney general has joined a multi-state lawsuit against FEMA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, accusing the agencies of withholding grant money that states use to pay emergency workers and fund disaster preparation.
The suit, filed in Oregon federal court, alleges that the Trump administration has placed new, unlawful restrictions on grant programs that are “functionally defunding state and local police agencies and emergency response personnel.” Those other states suing include Michigan, Arizona, Kentucky, Maryland and Wisconsin.
North Carolina receives around $17 million from the program to train emergency personnel, coordinate rescue operations and conduct other law enforcement exercises, Jackson’s office said.
“Our emergency management and first responder teams worked around the clock in the weeks following Hurricane Helene, and these funds were critical to their work,” said Attorney General Jeff Jackson. “We’re in hurricane season right now, and without these funds, we’ll be left with fewer resources to help people during the next storm that hits North Carolina.”
North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson held a press conference announcing he was filing a lawsuit with a coalition of Democratic states to force the Trump administration to continue funding SNAP food aid. (Photo: Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline)FEMA’s new guidance on the grant program requires states to submit a 2025 population estimate that excludes undocumented immigrants deported under the administration. And the agency also shortened the time window for the completion of grant-reimbursable activities from three years to one year.
The states argue those new guidelines are both overly burdensome and beyond the federal government’s reach to impose.
“[The guidance] is unexplained, does not reflect reasoned decision making, and ignores the states’ reliance…on receipt of the [grant] funds unimpeded,” the suit says.
FEMA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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