Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration filed another lawsuit Monday against President Donald Trump’s administration, this time in a bid to protect threatened emergency preparedness funding.

The city’s federal suit alleges the Department of Homeland Security has tied long-standing funding that pays for cybersecurity tools, hazmat suits, first-responder salaries and more to “unlawful conditions” outlawing the city’s “diversity, equity and inclusion” efforts.

Those conditions would require the city to certify that it does not operate “programs that advance or promote DEI, DEIA, or discriminatory equity ideology,” according to grant guidelines implemented by DHS in April.

The amount at stake is relatively small, as Chicago could lose up to $10 million next year, according to Johnson spoke

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