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Republican attorneys general threaten action on stimulus Dominick Mastrangelo © Getty Images President Biden Republican attorneys general in more than a dozen states are threatening legal action against the Biden administration over the newly signed $1.9 trillion coronavirus economic relief package, a measure they say is unconstitutional. In a seven-page letter sent to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday, the Republican officials argue that the relief package, specifically the $350 billion included within to help states and counties offset the cost of dealing with the pandemic, limits those governments ability to lower taxes for citizens should they want to. Absent a more sensible interpretation from your department, this provision would amount to an unprecedented and unconstitutional intrusion on the separate sovereignty of the States through federal usurpation of essentially one half of the State s fiscal ledgers, they wrote to Yellen. We ask th

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