BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell is leading a group of other Democrats in suing the Trump administration over cuts to federal funding for climate change resiliency projects.

Filed in U.S. District Court on Wednesday, the lawsuit alleges the move by Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Cameron Hamilton to unilaterally end congressionally approved funding from the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program was “illegal” and violates the separation of powers doctrine.

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