The state attorney general has announced a multi-state lawsuit against the Trump administration for rolling back part of the Affordable Care Act.

Eric Schneiderman says the executive order signed Thursday removes health subsidies to companies that are vital to many low-income New Yorkers.

He says the decision will cause premiums to increase and force people off plans they can no longer afford.

Schneiderman says Trump needs to stop politicizing the life-and-death nature of health care.

"His effort to gut these subsidies with no warning, or even a plan to contain the fallout, is breathtakingly reckless. He has failed twice in efforts to legislatively repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act," Schneiderman said. "This is an effort simply to blow up the system. We will not allow President Trump to use New York families as political pawns in his dangerous, partisan campaign."

The executive order halts federal payments to insurers.

Critics say carriers will try and get this funding back by raising premiums on people buying their own policies.