Experts are questioning President Donald Trump’s latest effort to slow the electric vehicle charging buildout in the U.S. In a letter Thursday night, the Trump administration directed states to stop spending money for EV charging infrastructure,

Federal Highway Administration officials said they were suspending the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program.

In a memo released Thursday, the Federal Highway Administration ordered states to halt a $5 billion program to build fast EV chargers on highways nationwide — an initiative that President Donald Trump cited as an example of the “Green New Deal.

Suspension of federal funding for new electric-vehicle charging stations blocks the build-out of a highway charging network for America’s battery-powered cars.

While the program isn’t dead, the Federal Highway Administration recently wrote to state transportation directors to inform them that the new leadership of the U.S. Department o