Florida is suing multiple Biden administration officials, alleging they are threatening to withhold hundreds of millions in federal transportation dollars unless the state waives provisions of a new Florida law restricting collective bargaining rights.

But a Florida AFL-CIO official said it’s unclear why state Attorney General Ashley Moody is filing the lawsuit, contending that the issues raised in the ligation filed in the Southern District of Florida could be sorted out without such litigation.

Moody’s lawsuit says the federal government wants to take away Florida’s autonomy to regulate how the collective bargaining process should work in the state. The Biden administration is now working to undermine that authority and this year’s passage of Senate Bill 256, which bars union dues from being automatically deducted from public employees’ payroll checks and raises the eligibility requirements for a union to serve as the bargaining agent for a group of public employees.