Posted on 08/08/2020 8:52:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As my friend and colleague, Mike Ford, reported earlier, after Democrats tried to hold up signing a Congressional relief package to play games and get some of their long term agenda items, President Donald Trump has decided to go around them with executive orders that do the following:
President @realDonaldTrump's first executive order today provides a payroll tax holiday to Americans earning less than $100,000 per year. pic.twitter.com/0VQGowNmx2
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 8, 2020
-Suspend Payroll Tax through remainder of 2020, for those making less than $100,000.00, retroactive to August 1st. If reelected, his intent is to make these payroll tax cuts permanent.
-Continue the moratorium on evictions, while providing financial assistance to renters.
-Extend unemployment benefits at a rate of $400.00/week, $200.00 less than previous plan. This gets rid of the “stay home” incentive by making work more attractive.
-Defer Student Loan Payments.
So these provide tremendous help to Americans, encourage the return to work, encourage employers to hire more workers.
Now these are incredibly popular moves. But Trump made them. And it means the Democrats don’t get to hold Americans hostage for their agenda. So therefore Democrats are going to fight against them despite the fact that they’re popular and help Americans. Not because Democrats truly have any principled objection to them, but simply because they can’t hold Americans as hostage any more to get what they want.
Trump has truly boxed the Democrats in with this move. If they don’t fight against this, they lose the hammer to get things like mail-in voting and not just that. Trump busted them on other things like wanting to eliminate voter ID and signature verification when voting even in states that have it already. Why would they want that and what does it have to do with virus stimulus, he said. He just lights them up.
President Trump: "The Democrat bill includes stimulus checks for illegal aliens, the mass release of illegal aliens from detention, they also compel the mass release of inmates, including serious felons… what does this have to do with the stimulus for the economy?" pic.twitter.com/nGmE7ztEuD
— ForAmerica (@ForAmerica) August 8, 2020
President @realDonaldTrump on how Democrats want to use the Coronavirus Relief Bill to ban voter ID and signature verification for federal elections.
Why would Democrats want to do that? pic.twitter.com/y17tUWKtUZ
— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) August 8, 2020
Brilliant. Americans can see clearly. They can also see the games Democrats have been trying to play.
If they do fight against it, they’re fighting against help to the American people. Not a good look. They’re gnashing their teeth over their predicament. They have promised to file a legal challenge, citing Congress’ constitutional authority to determine federal spending. But then, once again, they’re blocking relief to the American people. But now because of DACA, Barack Obama already set the precedent that is going to come back on them.
All the $13/pint designer ice cream in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s freezer can’t make up for how badly they are going to get scalded in the election if they go this route.
Are Democrats suing because PBS and Kennedy Center weren’t a part of the deal? https://t.co/woL2FoV1ds
— Tatjana Pasalic (@Tattytats) August 8, 2020
"Trump's strategy is diabolical," concludes @JoshMBlackman of the president's new executive actions on coronavirus relief. Why? Because thanks to it, "Biden is stuck between a rock and a hard basement." https://t.co/nAOnn7ZOpp
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) August 8, 2020
"Democratic AGs will have a tough time explaining why they are ripping away $400 a week from unemployed residents."
Trump's scheme to continue providing unemployment to Americans affected by the pandemic is diabolical indeed, as @JoshMBlackman explains. https://t.co/WVW25Btd0D
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) August 8, 2020
ONE person there realizes that if the dems oppose it, they are screwed.
I didn’t think there would be that many.
I will happily forgo my $1200 if it means not compromising with Democrats.
I believe he’s referring to the 2nd round.
Social Security cuts? NYC and others are helping that by killing off the old sick people with the virus.
Once again, those of us who actually pay for everything get nothing but the bill.
You're right. It's all general revenue. The only thing in the "fund" are giant piles of IOUs. All Social Security is, is a generational wealth transfer.
Predictable:
All of a sudden the left is all fiscal responsibility.
I’M WITH YOU, HOLLY B.
I hate myself for thinking this, but:
Many of the seniors, in the past three months, have succumbed to the virus. Perhaps that lessens the amount of the outflow of funds. That’s creepy, I know.
God Bless all those souls and welcome them home.
That one escaped me.
Watcha gonna do now Roberts?
Everything is paid through the velocity of the dollar.
I’m afraid it still escapes me. Please explain how the two relate to each other. Thanks.
DACA is unconstitutional.
Ok, well I was hoping for something a little more. Im not sure that 1) Trump does anything without making sure he has some legal authority behind it. After all he is the law and order president. 2) that Roberts or those voting unconstitutionally will care.
I’m not going to splay it out here but the President could very well be challenged on these EO’s.
It will very well bring up DACA and asshat Roberts to ‘splain hisself.
Didn’t the roberts court make DACA EO law...Say that it was lawful even though Obama himself said it wasn’t..The court was trying to find a way to let the the kids stay...
Obama said only congress had the right to do immigration law...But he wrote the EO and overrode congress.Trump has now written an EO that overrides congress and taxation.....
Sort of like starving the government (for once) by witholding payroll taxes until government opens up the economy. Forces government and democrats to live with less until this “Covid Crisis” is lifted off our backs. See how THEY like living with less while the main press whips up covid panic daily.
Even Justice Thomas said roberts ruling was political not legal...
Sort of like starving the government (for once) by witholding payroll taxes until government opens up the economy. Forces government and democrats to live with less until this “Covid Crisis” is lifted off our backs. See how THEY like living with less while the main press whips up covid panic daily.
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