FEMA's acting chief and his successor lacked legal authority to dismantle its infrastructure resilience program, states argue in a federal district court lawsuit.

Twenty Democratic-led states have filed a lawsuit against the Federal Emergency Management Agency for scrapping a crucial grant program that supported disaster mitigation. The lawsuit argues the Trump administration illegally ended the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities programme,

Trump declared a national emergency last week to get funding for his wall despite Congress denying the allocation of these funds. This money will now come from the Department of Defense and other agencies if Trump’s order holds. But, dozens of lawsuits from states, lawmakers, environmentalists and ...

Democratic lawmakers, states and others mulling legal challenges to President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration to obtain funds to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall face an uphill and ...

Tracking the legal challenges to Trump’s emergency declaration By Priscilla Alvarez, Joyce Tseng, CNN 1 minute read Updated 10:05 AM EDT, Wed June 5, 2019 Link Copied! CNN ...

The Disaster Legal Services program is part of a larger suite of FEMA benefits known as individual assistance, which the governors of at least 30 states have requested in connection with the pandemic.

As of Friday, FEMA reported shipping more than 11.5 million meals, 12.6 million liters of water, 400,000 tarps, and 150 generators to the affected region, as reported by The Washington Post.