Judge halts federal plan to cut states' disaster aid

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COMMUNITY members celebrate the Army Corps of Engineers finishing debris cleanup in the Palisades at a news conference in August.

(JASON ARMOND Los Angeles Times)

In their lawsuit Monday, the states said the funding being reduced was part of billions in federal dollars annually distributed to the states to “prepare for, protect against, respond to, and recover from catastrophic disasters,” and which administrations of both political parties distributed “evenhandedly” for decades before Trump.

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