Metro Nashville joins lawsuit claiming feds withheld millions

By: Sam Stockard

Outlets: Tennessee Lookout

Published: August 18, 2026

Words: 490

Last Updated: 8 hours, 37 minutes ago

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Metro Nashville filed suit Monday against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in federal court, claiming the Trump administration withheld tens of millions of dollars for anti-terrorism efforts unless states and local governments adopted certain election-system policies to check citizenship.

Metro joined Harris County and El Paso County, both in Texas, and the city of Columbus, Ohio in saying they lost 20% of their federal DHS allotment for not using a national citizenship verification system …

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