16 states and DC are suing the Trump administration over blocking funding for EV chargers

A conjugation of 16 states and Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Trump medication for suspending a $5 cardinal electrical conveyance charging initiative.

The suit targets the Department of Transportation, Transport Secretary Sean Duffy, the Federal Highway Administration, and its Acting Administrator Gloria M. Shepherd, implicit the abrupt halt of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula program.

NEVI was established nether the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and was a cardinal constituent of the Biden administration's propulsion for a nationalist EV charging network.

Tesla was 1 of its apical recipients, receiving $31 cardinal to grow its Supercharger web successful concern with nationalist initiatives.

However, an enforcement bid issued by President Donald Trump connected his archetypal time backmost successful bureau directed national agencies to frost funds allocated by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

The lawsuit, backed by states including California and Colorado, argues that the enforcement subdivision does not person the authorization to withhold oregon redirect the funding, and that the FHWA unlawfully revoked funds that Congress had directed to states for gathering infrastructure.

The plaintiffs said that the FHWA's enactment to instantly frost much than $2.7 cardinal successful NEVI funds disrupted projects already nether declaration oregon successful planning, causing semipermanent fiscal and logistical harm.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized the move, calling it "another Trump acquisition to China."

Newsom added that "instead of hawking Teslas connected the White House lawn, President Trump could really assistance Elon — and the federation — by pursuing the instrumentality and releasing this bipartisan funding."

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said that the Department of Transportation was "breaking the law" by withholding funding.

"Congress had the foresight to authorize backing to physique this important infrastructure, and it indispensable beryllium restored immediately," helium said. "I volition not hesitate to instrumentality them to tribunal to guarantee they travel the law."