Baltimore lawmakers collectively announced Tuesday the city is pursuing a lawsuit in response to the Trump administration’s freeze on federal funding.

In a rare joint statement endorsed by Mayor Brandon Scott, Comptroller Bill Henry and all 15 members of the Baltimore City Council, city officials said they are pursuing legal action in an effort to prevent cuts to funding that the city uses for transportation, housing and other services for some of the city’s most disadvantaged residents.

“This order is nothing short of an intentional effort by the Trump Administration to cripple cities like ours in an effort to unilaterally and illegally achieve a blatantly political agenda within the federal government,” the group wrote.

“The City will do everything in our power to prevent this from happening, including filing suit in federal court, which we are already in the process of doing.”

The lawmakers said they are still assessing the impact of the freeze, announced late Monday by the administration of President Donald Trump. However, early estimates show that billions of dollars are at risk, they said.

Baltimore’s current $4.2 billion budget includes $299 million in funding received directly from the federal government. Within the city’s operating budget, that funding is slated to pay for dozens of programs including those for youth, such as school health services; public safety, including police work and victim services; health offerings, like HIV treatment and care for seniors; and housing programs.

Almost $93 million of Baltimore’s federal funding is dedicated to capital projects like transportation improvements, housing costs and programs covered by the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, such as clean drinking water and high-speed internet.

City officials cautioned that many more dollars appear in the budget as state funding, but are in fact pass-through funds from the federal government. Baltimore is relying on $222 million in state funding this year.

“What we do know now is that the impacts will be devastating,” city officials said in a news release. “It will make it harder for hard-working Baltimoreans to feed their families and make ends meet, it will severely hamper our law enforcement and civilian violence intervention work from making our streets safer, it will mean our most vulnerable residents will lose access to services, and it will temporarily halt many efforts to strengthen our city’s aging infrastructure.”

Baltimore will not be the first to sue over the funding freeze. Earlier Tuesday, a group of advocacy organizations — including the National Council of Nonprofits, the American Public Health Association, Main Street Alliance and SAGE — filed a lawsuit arguing the freeze violates the First Amendment and the Administrative Procedure Act.

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown joined a coalition of 21 other attorneys general in challenging the order, as well.