GOP, Business Weigh in With States Against Covid Aid Restriction

Republican lawmakers, other states, and business and taxpayer groups threw their weight behind West Virginia and 12 other states fighting the U.S. Treasury’s appeal of a ruling that barred the government from enforcing federal restrictions on $195 billion in Covid-19 aid.

Treasury is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to overturn a permanent injunction on its enforcement of the American Rescue Plan Act’s offset provision, which the trial court called “an unconstitutionally ambiguous condition on the States’ receipt of federal funds.”

Sixty-four Republican lawmakers and the American Center for Law and Justice, nine ...