Suing Donald Trump for all the ways he is trying to take the nation back to the segregationist, plutocratic, white male-dominated, fossil fuel-dependent, and Banana Republic imperialistic Gilded Age has become an everyday job function for Democratic Attorney Generals across the country, including Arizona’s Kris Mayes.
Earlier this week, Democratic Attorneys General, including Mayes, struck back at the Trump regime again and its goals to undo all things accomplished by the Biden/Harris Administration by launching a lawsuit to restore two multi-million grant programs, approved in a bipartisan fashion in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, designed to build up and improve electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
Arizona is due $15 million total from these two grants.
Commenting in an office press release, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes wrote:
“I’ve already protected more than $1.5 billion for Arizona by filing these lawsuits and forcing the federal government to cough up the funding it lawfully owes us. The Federal Highway Administration awarded $15 million to Phoenix, and the President doesn’t have the right to step in and take it away.”
In the press release, Mayes’s office further justified the lawsuit, offering:
“The complaint filed today alleges that the Trump administration’s refusal to spend the funds that Congress appropriated for EV infrastructure is unlawful because it violates the separation of powers and violates the Administrative Procedure Act. The programs were created by statute, and federal agencies have a duty to faithfully execute those statutes. The complaint asks the court to declare that the defendants’ actions are unlawful and to permanently stop the administration from withholding these funds.”
Related to this lawsuit to stop Trump from giving the electric vehicle market to China and turning the clock back on clean energy and infrastructure progress, Arizona Representative Greg Stanton, speaking on News Nation after Ford announced they were shifting from electric vehicle production to hybrids, said:
“…Elon Musk is no Democrat. I mean, his support for EV was really across the board in Congress, voted for the Inflation Reduction Act, which is the largest investment in green and clean energy, including support in the EV industry in American History, and Trump comes on board, and for political reasons, I guess decides to move us in the opposite direction. We are in a battle with China on so many key industries, including the EV industry, and by eliminating the programs on the Inflation Reduction Acts, resulted in things like Ford losing these jobs, because remember when they make this decision, they’re choosing to lose 20 billion dollars, including new factories to support the EV industry…”
On customer demand for electric vehicles decreasing because Trump removed the Electric Vehicle tax credits, Stanon said:
“…But, as you know, we had made a decision in Congress to support this industry through tax credits to make the price of the EV vehicles a little more affordable, and EV sales were going through the roof. They were going very very well, and now with Trump in there, it’s gone back and forth, back and forth. It’s chaos in the industry, so probably they got exasperated and said no to that. Look, we need to support green and clean energy, including the electric vehicle industry. This is important for the United States to be a leader in this. We can’t unilaterally disarm if you will let China control this marketplace across the globe.”
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