A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to release billions of dollars in funds former President Joe Biden approved to build electric vehicle infrastructure in 14 states.
In granting a partial preliminary injunction Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Tana Lin – a Biden nominee – ordered that funding frozen by the Trump administration earlier this year be distributed to the states of Washington, Colorado, California, Arizona, Delaware, Hawai’i, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin.
While the judge ruled that the Trump administration breached its constitutional authority in pulling the funds approved by Congress in 2021 under Biden’s “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act,” Lin said Minnesota, Vermont and the District of Columbia did not provide enough evidence to prove they would suffer “irreparable harm” if the funding was not immediately released.
The sixteen states and D.C. sued the Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration in the Western District of Washington at Seattle last month.
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