Democratic legislators are fighting back against President Donald Trump’s attempts to withhold funding from their states.

The states are coming up with bills that would turn the tide and permit them to withhold federal payments if the federal government is delinquent in funding owed to them, NBC News reported Sunday.

Legal experts said the untested approach — introduced in bills as of now in Connecticut, Maryland, New York and Wisconsin —  still have a long way to go before becoming law and would face obstacles. 

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