PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield joined a group of 22 other attorneys general on Tuesday seeking a court order forcing the Trump administration to unfreeze federal disaster relief.

Even though several court orders blocked the Trump administration from freezing federal funds, the administration is still withholding millions of dollars in state grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, according to Attorney General Rayfield -- noting the blocked funding threatens life-saving emergency preparedness and recovery programs to help with emergencies from wildfires and floods to cybersecurity threats.

“The Trump administration’s refusal to release this funding is not just dangerous – it’s reckless,” Rayfield said. “It will harm people, and we won’t stand by while the federal government plays politics with people’s lives.”

The attorneys general filed a motion on Tuesday to enforce a preliminary injunction from early March, which would require the administration to stop the FEMA funding freeze.

The administration froze the federal funding through a mix of actions, including a January 27 memo from the Office of Management and Budget, which froze trillions of dollars in federal grants for states, nonprofits and community health centers.

After the OMB memo was issued, states, including Oregon, reported issues accessing federal funding for programs such as Medicaid and Head Start.

Amid blocked FEMA funds, Rayfield says the Oregon Department of Emergency Management is among state agencies that have been "greatly impacted" by the funding freeze, adding that the agency has filed a declaration of support of the motion filed by the attorneys general.

According to Rayfield, OEM administers nearly 30 FEMA grants or lines of federal disaster assistance that have been frozen. Those grants would support disaster prep, along with response and recovery planning and training.

On January 28, Attorney General Rayfield and the coalition filed their initial lawsuit against the administration’s federal funding freeze and on Jan. 31, the court granted their request for a temporary restraining order that blocked implementation of the funding freeze until further instruction from the court.

On Feb. 7, the attorneys general filed motions to enforce the preliminary injunction in order to stop the freeze. The group filed a second motion Feb. 28 seeking enforcement to stop the administration from freezing FEMA funds.

On March 6, the attorneys general won the preliminary injunction to stop the federal funding freeze. As part of the injunction, the court ordered the administration to provide evidence that they unfroze FEMA funds by March 14; however, the funds continue to be unavailable, Rayfield said.

Leading efforts in the funding freeze battle are the attorneys general representing California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island. Other attorneys general joining the effort include the attorneys general of Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia.

The legal challenge comes one day after Oregon Governor Tina Kotek announced Oregon is unable to access federal disaster relief after declaring a state of emergency in 10 Oregon counties following devastating flooding.

“We are, at present, looking at up to $450 million in federal funds that continue to be inaccessible despite court orders," Governor Kotek announced Monday.

Of that $450 million, Kotek’s office said $129 million in FEMA funding is now out of reach because of pending orders from the Trump Administration.