FILE - In this March 27, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump listens before he signs the coronavirus stimulus relief package in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. Trump has framed his fight against the pandemic as a war, and himself a wartime president. But rather than fully lever the power of the federal government, he has increasingly put responsibility on the states, reigniting the kind of tension the nation’s founders wrestled with more than two c…
March 28, 2020
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Analysis: Virus pulls federalism debate into 21st Century
WASHINGTON (AP) — A flu pandemic was ravaging the world, killing indiscriminately in almost every country, including more than 600,000 deaths in the United States. The states were in a panic, but there was almost no call for broad federal assistance — at least, not one heeded by the president.