The program, established by a 2000 law, provides grants for a variety of disaster mitigation efforts, including levees to protect against floods, safe rooms to provide shelter from tornadoes, vegetation management to reduce damage from fires and seismic retrofitting to fortify buildings for earthquakes.

The lawsuit, according to a statement from the Arizona Attorney General's Office, is over a decision to shut down FEMA's Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program. Arizona was originally set to receive $9.

Pennsylvania is part of a coalition of 20 states that announced Wednesday it was suing the Trump administration for shutting down natural disaster funding through FEMA. Here's what we know.