An ‘Economic Dunkirk Plan’ for Saving State Economies

Governing: Despite President Trump's claim of "total" authority over lifting restrictions put in place to slow the spread of the coronavirus, he has left managing both the public health response and the social and economic closures to individual states. It will fall largely to them to restart their economies.

But how? Unlike the feds, states can't simply print money, and all but one of them (Vermont) are constitutionally required to balance their operating budgets.

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