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Judi Lynn

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Sun Aug 9, 2020, 10:01 AM Aug 2020

Trump thinks he's been given vast new powers. Now he's going to use them


Zach Wolf
Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN

Updated 9:34 AM ET, Sun August 9, 2020

(CNN)The good news is that President Donald Trump is aiming to help Americans hurt by the coronavirus pandemic, signing executive actions to extend expanded unemployment benefits and a moratorium on evictions.

The bad news is that he's seizing new powers for the presidency to do it.

The first thing reporters and experts wondered when Trump announced his executive actions, was, can he do that?

It's not clear! But he's doing it anyway. When he announced he was signing executive actions, which he kept referring to interchangeably with law, no reporters had read them.

One executive action he signed, which Democrats are sure to fight in court, would extend expanded unemployment benefits at as much as $400 per week -- 25% of which states are being asked to cover -- instead of the $600 per week Democrats wanted and the $200 per week Senate Republicans suggested. As CNN's Kristen Holmes reported Saturday night, that memorandum comes with plenty of strings and is leaving experts doubtful it'll help a lot of the unemployed.

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https://us.cnn.com/2020/08/09/politics/trump-powers-coronavirus/index.html
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Trump thinks he's been given vast new powers. Now he's going to use them (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2020 OP
Zachary B Wolf....YOU ARE AN IDIOT Ferrets are Cool Aug 2020 #1
+1000 Thekaspervote Aug 2020 #2
Progressives Say Call Trump Executive Orders What They Are: IIllegal. Inadequate. Misleading. 'A Di Judi Lynn Aug 2020 #3
Maybe he *thinks* he has superpowers Delarage Aug 2020 #4
Maybe one of the oddest photos ever seen! Produces equal impulses to laugh or vomit! n/t Judi Lynn Aug 2020 #5

Ferrets are Cool

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1. Zachary B Wolf....YOU ARE AN IDIOT
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 10:28 AM
Aug 2020

He didn't do any of the things you are stating. DO YOUR FUCKING HOMEWORK.

You are systematic of what is wrong with journalism.

Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
3. Progressives Say Call Trump Executive Orders What They Are: IIllegal. Inadequate. Misleading. 'A Di
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 12:44 PM
Aug 2020

Published on
Sunday, August 09, 2020
by Common Dreams


Progressives Say Call Trump Executive Orders What They Are: IIllegal. Inadequate. Misleading. 'A Disgrace.' 'A Sham.' 'A Cruel Joke.'

If president actually "cared about helping Americans," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, "he would have demanded Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell start negotiating as soon as the House passed the HEROES act almost two months ago."

by Jon Queally, staff writer

Wholly inadequate. Illegal. Misleading. "A failure." "A disgrace." "A sham." "A cruel joke."

Progressive critics and Democratic lawmakers did not need the help of even the Republican U.S. Senator who used the phrase "unconstituional slop" to describe President Donald Trump's slate of executive orders—signed Saturday at his private golf club in New Jersey—to rack up ferocious condemnation of the presidential actions as "legally dubious," shortsighted, wholly inadequate, and final proof that Trump does not understand the scale of the economic devastation his Republican Party is unleashing on the nation with its refusal to join Democrats to pass a far-reaching Covid-19 rescue package.

In response to the four executive orders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said if the president truly "cared about helping Americans, he would have demanded Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell start negotiating as soon as the House passed the HEROES act almost two months ago. These legally dubious actions aren't real relief for states and families—they're a cruel joke."

In a thread on Twitter, Warren explained why each of the orders—put forth by the White House as a payroll tax holiday (which many employers will find no reason to utilize), a rental protection effort (which actually leaves many millions out), student loan reprieve for some borrowers (which is only temporary), and a federal unemployment boost (which is actually a cut from what had been available and "terrible economics&quot —are each problematic in their own right, a judgement shared broadly by experts, her fellow Democrats, and progressive observers.

On the payroll tax holiday—which defenders of Medicare and Social Security have warned is a backdoor assault on the key safety net programs—Warren said: "I've led the fight in the Senate for years to protect and expand Social Security. I promise you, Mr. President: if you want to gut Social Security and break our promises to seniors, veterans, and Americans with disabilities, you're going to lose that fight."

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