Nashville joins lawsuit aiming to halt Trump administration's federal funding freeze
Nashville is joining five cities and nearly a dozen nonprofits in a lawsuit seeking to halt the Trump administration's federal funding freeze.
The 86-page suit, led by the Southern Environmental Law Center and the Public Rights Project, was filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, Charleston Division.
Along with President Donald Trump, the suit also names various Trump administration officials as defendants, including Amy Gleason, the acting administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency, and Elon Musk, who's listed as 'senior advisor of the United States DOGE service.'
According to the suit, each plaintiff is a nonprofit organization or municipality that's been awarded federal grant funds, either as direct recipients or as sub-grantees, to carry out specific programs enacted by Congress under the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and other federal statutes.
For Metro Nashville, that applies to two grant awards: a $4.7 million grant for the 'Electrify Music City' project, which would upgrade and expand electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and a $9.3 million grant for the 'East Nashville Spokes' project to help fund a transit connection project, including protected bike lanes and pedestrian improvements.
According to the lawsuit, planning and implementation for the Electrify Music City project has now been thrown into disarray. Metro included those funds in its Transportation Improvement Program budget for this fiscal year. And the East Nashville Spokes project was incorporated into the larger Choose How You Move transit plan but, with funds frozen, has 'languished in uncertainty.'
Like Nashville, cities such as Baltimore, Maryland, and Madison, Wisconsin, have also been impacted by the federal funding freeze. The suit states it's caused disruptions to a training program preparing young adults for jobs in the water and solid waste industries in Baltimore and to a project to improve housing affordability through home energy upgrades in Madison.
Metro Director of Law Wally Dietz is one of several representatives quoted in a Southern Environmental Law Center news release about the lawsuit. In the release, Dietz said the suit asks the federal grant funding approved by Congress and awarded by the U.S. Department of Transportation be delivered to Nashville 'as promised.'
'For more than 200 years, local, state and federal governments have reliably worked together to implement programs that benefit people all over America,' Dietz said. 'Metro Nashville filed this suit because the constitutional separation of powers must be maintained. No president, much less a non-federal employee at a fictional agency, has the authority to freeze funds appropriated by Congress.'
Austin Hornbostel is the Metro reporter for The Tennessean. Have a question about local government you want an answer to? Reach him at ahornbostel@tennessean.com.
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