Columbus is joining other cities and nonprofits to sue President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency for cutting federal grants for their local programs — in Columbus’ case, tree planting. Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein announced Thursday that the plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in federal court in South Carolina challenging DOGE’s cuts to community grants, including a $500,000 U.S. Forest Service grant for Columbus. The city has already spent most of the allotment to plant more than a thousand trees in neighborhoods that lack tree canopy, but it hasn’t been reimbursed. …Columbus is one of six city plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which also includes San Diego, Baltimore and Nashville. They are joined by 10 environmental nonprofits. All of the plaintiffs were awarded various federal grants and have lost, or could lose their funding. They’re suing a long list of federal agencies and their administrators in addition to Trump, DOGE and Musk.