Biden ‘dictatorship’ ripped by five state AGs over minimum wage hike

Published February 8, 2022 9:03pm ET



President Joe Biden’s expanding practice of governing through executive orders in the face of congressional inaction or opposition today drew a federal lawsuit from five state attorneys general who declared his presidency a “dictatorship.”

Arguing against Biden’s hike of the federal minimum wage over bipartisan Senate opposition, the top lawyers in Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Nebraska, and South Carolina said in the suit that “the United States is not a dictatorship.”

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