Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Nebraska and South Carolina sued the Biden administration today over its mandate to increase the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 an hour.
The coalition said the act violates the Procurement Act and the Spending Clause of the U.S. Constitution. In a statement, the states note that the Senate rejected a proposal akin to Biden's order before he signed it.
"The United States is not a dictatorship. Notwithstanding the President’s conviction that he—and not Congress—knows what the appropriate minimum wage should be, he can only act consistent with the law as set out by Congress," the lawsuit reads.
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