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Cuomo denies Trump has ‘total authority’ to reopen US economy

As U.S. President Donald Trump insists he alone has the power to mandate when states reopen from the novel coronavirus outbreak, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo stressed Tuesday the president’s power is not absolute.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo would refuse and legally challenge a potential order from President Donald Trump to reopen the state’s economy if doing so would put its residents at risk of being exposed to the novel coronavirus, he said Tuesday.

“I don’t know what the president is talking about, frankly. We have a Constitution. The Constitution is based on balance of powers. It’s the states that created the federal government,” Cuomo said during an interview with the Today morning show. “We don’t have a king. We have a president.”

“We ran away from having a king, and George Washington was president, not King Washington, so the president doesn’t have total authority,” Cuomo said.

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