08-10-2020, 03:00 PM
comparing what the President and his croonies have been saying vs what is the executive Orders the President himself signed shows it is a classic bait and switch and the worst part is, the know it and dont even care. Read along...
Quote:In May, Democrats passed the $3 trillion Heroes Act that addressed many of the problems facing Americans right now including an extension on the $600 weekly unemployment benefits, an extension of the federal moratorium on evictions, an increase in student loan debt relief, an increase of funding for states, etc. Going into negotiations in July, Republicans only proposed a $1 trillion bill that cut unemployment benefits to $200 a week and didn’t include much of the relief Democrats were seeking.As someone once said.. what what they do and not what they say.
Republicans waited until late July to even open up talks on these proposals and never even put the Heroes act up for a vote in the Senate. This week, negotiations between Democrats, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (NY), and the White House, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, heated up. President Trump stayed out of the negotiations but it was clear he was driving the strategy of Mnuchin and Meadows. Pelosi and Schumer dropped their ask by $1 trillion dollars and the White House outright rejected any efforts to compromise while teasing upcoming executive actions. As talks fell apart on Friday, it became clear they never wanted a deal in the first place.
On Saturday, President Trump swept in to create the false appearance he was the hero. The fact of the matter is that many of these executive actions might get hung up in the courts to begin with, and on their face they weren’t very effective. Let’s dive into these smoke and mirror actions, shall we?
Executive memo on unemployment benefits: President Trump signed an executive memorandum that cut unemployment benefits from $600 a month to $400 by pulling money from disaster aid. Congress has the power of the purse so this reallocation of funds sets Trump up for legal challenges. There’s also a catch: Trump required that states have to agree to pay 25% of the benefits in order for any of their residents to receive the funds. The problem is, states are in dire financial positions. Trump is simultaneously opposing Democratic calls to give coronavirus aid money to states while asking states to cover 25% of these costs.
Aside from the fact this executive action is widely seen as unconstitutional, Americans know Democrats fought to continue the $600 a week benefits. Trump cut that to $400. Cutting unemployed Americans’ income by $800 a month in the middle of a pandemic he mishandled doesn’t look as good as Trump thinks it does. Over 30 million Americans are still waiting to receive enhanced unemployment benefits after they expired at the end of July. This executive action does not provide all of them with that.
Executive order on evictions: This was the only executive action President Trump took that was an executive order. While Trump tried to make this appear as if it extended the federal moratorium on evictions and gave rental assistance to renters, it did neither. All it did was direct federal agencies to consider whether it was necessary to further halt evictions. Given the fact up to 40 million Americans could face eviction by October, it’s clearly necessary.
Executive memo on the payroll tax cut: President Trump signed a payroll tax cut that was really a deferment that he promised would be a permanently cut if he’s re-elected. So, in other words, President Trump vowed to permanently cut social security and medicare if he’s re-elected.
Executive memo on student loan relief: President Trump extended the pause on interest and payments for student loans until the end of the year. This does not go as far as the Democratic Heroes Act which extends student loan payment pauses for an additional year and offers $10,000 in debt forgiveness.
Throughout the briefing ahead of the signing, President Trump continued to call these actions “bills,” which further highlighted his authoritarian belief that he can legislate without Congress. These actions do not help the American people in the way a robust piece of legislation coming out of Congress would. People from both sides of the aisle spoke out, aside from Trump sycophants of course.
Source: rantt.com
