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Sign up for our&nbsp;&nbsp;to get a daily update on the coronavirus pandemic.Several prominent GOP lawmakers on Tuesday rebuked President Trump’s claim a day earlier that he to tell states what to do during the coronavirus pandemic.“The constitution doesn’t allow the federal gov’t to become the ultimate regulator of our lives because they wave a doctor’s note. Powers not delegated are RESERVED to states &amp; the PEOPLE. If we dispense with constitutional restraints, we will have more to worry about than a virus,” , a libertarian.Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the third ranking Republican in the House, also weighed in, quoting the 10th Amendment to the Constitution in a tweet.“The federal government does not have absolute power. ‘The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.’ United States Constitution, Amendment X,”Even Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio, normally a reliable Trump supporter, questioned the assertion, albeit in gentler language.“How &amp; when to modify physical distancing orders should &amp; will be made by Governors. Federal guidelines issued by ⁦@CDCgov &amp; ⁦@WhiteHouse will be very influential. But the Constitution &amp; common sense dictates these decisions be made at the state level,” .Trump during Monday’s combative Coronavirus Task Force briefing when questioned about his authority to force states to end mitigation efforts such as stay-at-home guidelines and closing schools and non-essential, businesses.“When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total. And that’s the way it’s got to be. It’s total,” Trump asserted.Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other Democrats quickly , citing the 10th Amendment and states rights.Cuomo said he Trump might give to reopen his state in an unsafe manner during the coronavirus outbreak.“If he ordered me to reopen in a way that would endanger the public health of the people of my state, I wouldn’t do it,” Cuomo told CNN.“We had this argument. It was done a long time ago. People by the name of Hamilton, and Jefferson and Madison and Washington. And they concluded this. They wrote a document that’s called the Constitution of the United States,” Cuomo said.“We didn’t have King George Washington and we don’t have King Trump.”The hashtag #KingTrump later took off on Twitter as users noted that Trump had previously said handling the pandemic was an issue for the states and that the federal government was only the back-up.Trump pushed back against Cuomo, to the brutal Captain Bligh from the flick “The Mutiny on the Bounty” and casting Democratic governors as the mutineers.

Sign up for our&nbsp;&nbsp;to get a daily update on the coronavirus pandemic.Several prominent GOP lawmakers on Tuesday rebuked President Trump’s claim a day earlier that he to tell states what to do during the coronavirus pandemic.“The constitution doesn’t allow the federal gov’t to become the ultimate regulator of our lives because they wave a doctor’s note. Powers not delegated are RESERVED to states &amp; the PEOPLE. If we dispense with constitutional restraints, we will have more to worry about than a virus,” , a libertarian.Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the third ranking Republican in the...

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