U.S. President Donald Trump is the target of a lawsuit from 17 states claiming that his suspension of federal funding “will devastate the ability of states to build the charging infrastructure necessary for making EVs accessible for more consumers.”
The suit is in response to the Trump administration’s suspension of the $5 billion National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program back in early February, as Automotive News reports.
The far-flung group of states launching the suit ranges from California and Washington State to less expected states such as Arizona and Wisconsin, along with the District of Columbia itself. The suit, filed in Seattle, claims that the President lacks authority to block the funds and calls for their release to help continue the flow of money to building out EV infrastructure.
According to the plaintiffs, the funding suspension will not only make it harder for people to switch over to EV use, but will damage state economies that are entwined with the move to greener transport. The loss of funding will also contribute to more pollution and release of greenhouse gases, the lawsuit asserts.
Wisconsin governor Tony Evers is a vocal participant in the lawsuit, saying that his state is “suing to force the Trump Administration to release these funds so we can get back to work building the 21st-century infrastructure Wisconsinites need and deserve.”
Meanwhile, California’s Gavin Newsom fulminated that “instead of hawking Teslas on the White House lawn, President Trump could actually help Elon – and the nation – by following the law and releasing this bipartisan funding.” He blasted the move as “yet another Trump gift to China.” Other governors and state attorneys general issued similar statements.
Relatedly, the General Services Administration (GSA) shut down about 8,000 EV chargers at federal buildings as Trump began the rollback of Biden’s electrification policies following his inauguration. Stringent emissions rules put in place during the Biden administration also went on the chopping block in March.
While automakers supported the Trump administration’s actions on the new emissions rules, which they previously protested were impossible to achieve in the short timeframe provided with current technology, they also pushed the Republican president to continue funding new EV charging infrastructure.
The Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA), of which GM is a member, said that federal funding for EV chargers “is an effective and important element of a truly strategic energy policy that promotes U.S. innovation, domestic investment and energy security.”
The lawsuit says that it is illegal for Trump to suspend part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) while the act is still in force; that the president cannot freeze congressionally approved funding with an executive order; and that no “valid explanation” was provided for suddenly canceling previously approved state EV infrastructure plans, among other breaches of law.
Luckily, no other motorists are caught up in the mayhem.
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Oh the haters and thats all these 16 years has brought us with the pendulum swinging back and forth. Take away all the incentives to Big Oil and REMOVE our military from the middle east and lets see not only the couple hundred billions NOT 5 billion that is saved as well as your gas prices going thru the roof...oh wait you dont think that costs the tax payers!
From a realistic standpoint we spent billions of dollars over 4 years on the Green New Deal and built only a handful charging stations were completed. We really should be interested in who in the 17 states suing the Feds received all the $$'s kicked to them from these so called contractors. These "infrastructure" deals are really just money laundering political operations.
Your nickname should be hands, because EVgo's site shows 133 Travel Center/Pilot Flying J locations with EV charging as of February 2025. To keep you honest, we can say 123 locations were built in January and February of this year.
Note that this is just one provider using IRA money to build chargers.
IRA is a bill voted by the Congress of the USA. It can be reversed only by the Congress of the USA. If I remember correctly it was a by partisan bill. What is so hard to understand?
Stop dancing around the issue and spreading hate messages against the states / people who are asking for the law to be obeyed.
Those states can go to hell with their stupid inane lawsuits. Billions to create charging stations and nobody seeing the end results, waste of tax payer money.
Yep, plus we don't have the infrastructure.
Gasoline and diesel tax in my state is 24 cents/gallon, vs. EV's which pay nothing in road use taxes.
Bicycle ridersalso use public roads and don't pay any road use taxes or tolls. Jow about walkers who use sidewalks? Gas tax is an extra income for your State. If nobody drove a car, where will they get the money?
Think about those Prius drivers getting 50mpg and barely paying anything vs those big ole compensation trans trucks with bull nuts on them. How fair is that?
(If the truck didn’t come with nuts, then it had gender affirming care performed).
Look, jokes aside, many states have implemented flat fees that are often higher than avg driver pays in gas tax, and typically gas tax only covers 40%~60% of the revenue needed for road infrastructure. The rests come from property taxes, sales taxes, and income taxes which EV owners also pay.
Also, burning a gallon of gas cost society about $5~$10 per gallon in additional healthcare costs due to increased asthma and cancer rates.
Add to that, every EV driver is helping out lower gas prices by decreasing demand for oil. All y’all gas fans should be cheering on the EV movement.
Here's the EV charging station solution, put a road use tax like the ICE vehicles owners pay per charge. I average $11 road tax at NC's .83 cents per gallon taxes each week or about $44 a month. In NC EV owners only pay $250.00 for road taxes when they renew their car tags ... should be paying the same average amount in road use taxes I and others ICE vehicles owners pay. Most EV owners are very liberal minded, so pay your fair share to use the city/county streets, interstates, and tunnels & bridges. Don't as me and millions of other in NC to pay for the roads so you can use them for almost scott free !
Ok so NC gas tax is about $0.40 per gallon.
Avg US miles traveled is about 13,500 miles. Avg efficiency is about 25mpg. That’s about 540 gallons of gas or $216 per year.
$250 is more than $216. And if you only travel like 7,000 miles per year you are really getting screwed.
Flat fees are really unfair.
Dear Blue States.....your lies and claims that cutting funding for Energy Hog EV charging stations paid for by Taxpayers is total hogwash. Your usual "judge shopping" may win you an initial victory from some leftist, activist moron wearing black robes but he/she will lose just like you will.
I have to admit the smear Hate campain the oil companies released about 3 years ago really worked well, they targeted mass media. They brain washed all these people and from what I am reading they did a great job. The main problem is the rest of the world is moving to EV its the future. So we can be behind the world or lead the world. I would think people would want USA to be the first and lot living in old tech. Typically the USA leads in tech . Here the oil companies have done a great job making EV look bad and it will blow you up or cant be charged etc like the gas companies said electric edition light would do back in 1860's/
Agreed its paid by big oil. Other countries are heavy funding EV to help bring the tech forward quicker. We can make it be adopted slower but then we will be behind in tech. The problem is Gas and desiel trucks as they age the pollute far more, oil burning and dumping oil. Trump apparently owned two EV cars an original EV Tesla roadster and now a new EV from musk so he is walking a fine line with his investors.
No more government EV freebees! BOO HOO HOO..GET OUT THE CRYING TOWELS.😥
Wow there are some crazy a-s libturds on here, justifying the green new scam on the world was a lucrative hoax on its citizens, so the politician scumbags can continue to extort money from a false narrative.
Has anyone asked people who supports EV’s, How are they gonna charge their vehicle up when they’re blackouts? We’re you gonna go to get power? I imagine you’ll be asking your neighbor who drives a gas vehicle and a normal brain for a ride and I think it would be funny if they just said sorry you’re on your own.
EV’s are not high-tech. It’s just electric motors, what makes it high tech is the computer systems that’s installed that will give the government and corporations the ability to track every place you drive, how many people you carry. comments you say in your vehicle and the ability to shut your car down by remote. You think this tech is not already installed in GM vehicles? GM Onstar has battled lawsuits for invasion of privacy, allowing to Feds to Cartap your system to record your conversations. This is no different than what they’re doing in China to their people.
In my opinion, EV’s are just a fad like Bell bottom blue jeans. One morning you’re gonna wake up and ask yourself. Why the hell did I buy into this crap.
Enjoy your freedom while it lasts patriots.