I wonder what the narrative would have been if the previous president came out of his mouth with what Trump said yesterday. I know for a FACT some members of this board, Fox News et al would lose their ■■■■ .
Anyway, this jackass really need a civics lesson and maybe actually read the Constitution.
Precisely. I know what they would have said about Obama saying something like this - because I was still in the Republican Party during Obama’s term. I would have been saying the same things about him then that I’m saying about Trump now.
The 10th Amendment gives the State the power to do as they wish so long as they are fairly autonomous.
However, if the states are insist on the Federal government to bail them out in way that more money is needed to restart their local economies that is where both the POTUS and Congress can insist such states to conform to executive will.
Federal cash and resources often come with caveats.
For example, President Dwight Eisenhower signed into law in 1956 the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 (also short titled the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act). At the time, it was the largest amount of money given towards “infrastructure”, a word often cited by President Trump during this crisis. This act explicitly authorized appropriations for continuing the construction of highways,; to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide additional revenue from taxes on motor fuel, tire, and trucks and buses; and for the other purposes. The term “defense” was included to divert costs from defense funds and provide access to the US militia to defend itself during conventional or nuclear war. Do you see where the POTUS and Congress are going…
Honestly, they know they can’t defend this while holding on to the conservative principle of a small centralized government that respects the rights of individual states. They’d rather have a big government that supplies everything that Trump demands.
“Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests of the people." James Madison - The Federalist No. 10