The Trump administration has not complied with a judge’s order to restore a popular grant program for disaster protection — despite promising to do so in several recent emails, according to a court filing Tuesday by Democratic prosecutors.
The emails, which have not been previously reported, were revealed in court documents filed Tuesday by Democratic state attorneys general who sued the administration after it canceled the multibillion-dollar program last year. The attorneys general asked Judge Richard Stearns of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts to enforce his December order.
“Nothing has changed since the Order,” they wrote in their motion. “Despite Plaintiffs’ inquiries, Defendants have not identified any concrete steps that they have taken to implement the Order.”
Twenty-three states sued the administration for ending the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program and the $4.5 billion approved for local projects to reduce damage from storms, wildfires and other disasters.
