A federal judge shot down a preliminary injunction request in a lawsuit with the aid of more than a dozen states that declare a provision limiting tax cuts in President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 relief package is unconstitutional.
The Wednesday choice became a blow to Republicans who had sought injunctive relief on a provision within the American Rescue Plan Act that says relief funding received by states can not be used to offset tax cuts or credit “without delay or in a roundabout way.” The states had argued that the mandate violates the constitution’s spending clause and the 10th modification.
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