After the Trump administration announced plans to shut down a program meant to help communities prepare for natural disasters, a federal judge has barred the admin from shifting funds tied to the program amid a lawsuit led by Washington state.

A federal judge prevented the Trump administration from reallocating billions of dollars to a FEMA disaster prevention program on Tuesday. Judge Richard Stearns of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted a preliminary injunction blocking allocated funds from being steered away from FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program.

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration on Tuesday from diverting more than $4 billion from a grant program designed to protect communities against natural disasters. U.S. District Judge Rich