The city of Atlanta has quietly joined a lawsuit seeking to fight the Trump administration’s efforts to withhold funding from municipalities because of their diversity, equity and inclusion programs, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned.
In February, the city banded with more than a dozen other cities and counties to become additional plaintiffs in an existing lawsuit filed last summer by a group led by Fresno, California.
The lawsuit, Fresno v. Turner, is one of several filed by municipalities and authorities over the last year against federal agencies and their leaders, including Scott Turner, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
At issue is a set of new grant terms instituted by President Donald Trump and his administration that require all entities receiving federal funding, including municipal governments, to participate in immigration enforcement and eliminate DEI initiatives requirements.
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Last summer Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport lost millions of dollars in Federal Aviation Administration funding after the city-owned airport’s leader refused to sign the new terms, the AJC reported.
Atlanta and the other new Fresno v. Turner plaintiffs have asked a federal judge to temporarily prohibit the agencies from enforcing these terms as the case proceeds.
The judge already granted a preliminary injunction for the first batch of plaintiffs in September. A hearing on Atlanta’s motion is set for Thursday.
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In the amended complaint filed in February, Atlanta stated it “relies on many millions of dollars in federal funding,” including anticipating nearly $25 million for housing, $68 million in transportation grants, nearly $49 million from the FAA and $2.4 million from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Atlanta depended on an estimated $1.4 billion in federal funding last year alone, according to a city document reviewed by the AJC.
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