Gov. Josh Shapiro has joined yet another multi-state lawsuit against the Trump administration over its attempts to unilaterally alter federal funding, this time relating to a change in the rules for a program that helps homeless people get housing.

The suit was filed on Tuesday by 19 states plus Washington, D.C., in federal court for the District of Rhode Island. The issue centers around the Continuum of Care program, the federal government’s primary mechanism to fund homelessness assistance, which is run through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

According to the lawsuit filed by Shapiro and the other states, the program guidelines, which HUD issued earlier this month, contained a number of abrupt and inexplicable changes.

The new funding rules, the plaintiffs a

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