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States are in debt---the President can cut off aid.
Gerken ’17 [Heather; January 20; J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School, JD from the University of Michigan Law School, AB from Princeton University; Vox, “We’re About to See States’ Rights Used Defensively Against Trump,” https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/12/12/13915990/federalism-trump-progressive-uncooperative]
Progressive federalism isn’t a cure-all, of course. The president is more than capable of causing harm with a stroke of the executive pen. Heavily indebted states and cities may find resisting the federal government too expensive. And cities and state governments have other important business to address.
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