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President Donald Trump’s executive order and memorandums ostensibly providing relief amid the intractable coronavirus pandemic don’t seem feasible or legal, experts said Saturday. One Republican lawmaker, Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, called Trump’s unilateral moves “unconstitutional slop.”“President Obama did not have the power to unilaterally rewrite immigration law with DACA and President Trump does not have the power to unilaterally rewrite the payroll tax law,” Sasse said in a statement. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Trump’s rival in the 2016 presidential election, in an MSNBC interview called the executive actions signed on Saturday at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J., “a stunt.” Trump made an end run around Congress on Saturday with an executive order and three memoranda aimed at boosting the economy, but analysts said the wording of the orders raised more questions than the answers provided. Read: For instance, the executive order will allow companies to avoid collecting payroll taxes, but analysts said workers would still be on the hook to pay the taxes by next April 15.Trump, prodded by some of his economic advisers, has been a vocal fan of a payroll-tax holiday, but the tax break is not popular among Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill, as these taxes fund the Social Security program. One Trump memorandum would provide $400 a week in extra unemployment benefits. The federal money would come from disaster relief funds. Analysts questioned the wisdom of using such funds with the U.S. hurricane season ahead. Cash-strapped states would be required to chip in $100 of the extra benefit. The program could last just four weeks before it runs out of money, Ernis Tedeschi, a former Treasury Department economist, tweeted that he didn’t think the unemployment insurance plan would work:The Trump memorandum that on its face extends the CARES Act’s eviction moratorium merely asks whether certain agencies could “maybe do something” about evictions, said Bharat Ramamurti, a member of the COVID-19 Congressional Oversight Commission, in a tweet:Congressional Democratic leaders issued a joint statement condemning the executive actions as feckless and urging Republicans to return to the negotiating table. Sen. Charles Schumer, Democrat of New York, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, from California, called Trump’s actions “unworkable, weak and narrow.” Diane Swonk, chief economist at Grant Thornton, agreed that Congress needs to pass legislation. The July employment report showed that job growth is slowing as the coronavirus pandemic spreads. “The crisis is real, while the economy has already shown signs of losing momentum.” Swonk said in a tweet. The House , but at the end of July. Trump on Monday hit back at Sasse’s “unconstitutional slop” assessment, calling the Nebraskan a “RINO” who could not have won his primary in May — he got more than three in four votes — without Trump’s endorsement but who has “gone rogue again.” Sasse later replied that he’d have preferred to keep the conversation private but that Trump had negated that option. “On the topic that had you mad this weekend: No president — whether named Obama or Trump or Biden or AOC — has unilateral power to rewrite immigration law or to cut taxes or to raise taxes. This,” read , “is because America doesn’t have kings.” Read on:Ukrainian troops piled pressure on retreating Russian forces on Tuesday, pressing a counteroffensive that has produced major gains and a stunning blow to Moscow's military prestige.SearchVisit a quote page and your recently viewed tickers will be displayed here.Search TickersNo results found

President Donald Trump’s executive order and memorandums ostensibly providing relief amid the intractable coronavirus pandemic don’t seem feasible or legal, experts said Saturday. One Republican lawmaker, Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, called Trump’s unilateral moves “unconstitutional slop.”“President Obama did not have the power to unilaterally rewrite immigration law with DACA and President Trump does not have the power to unilaterally rewrite the payroll tax law,” Sasse said in a statement. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Trump’s rival in the 2016 presidential election, in an...

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