Posted on 08/19/2020 4:35:59 AM PDT by 11th_VA
LANSING — Michigan is asking the federal government to provide jobless residents with $300 a week in extra unemployment benefits to replace the $600 per week pandemic bonus that expired in late July.
The state's Unemployment Insurance Agency applied for program funding through the Federal Emergency Management Administration, Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Tuesday.
Unable to reach an agreement with Congress on another federal relief package, Republican President Donald Trump last week signed an executive order to make extra unemployment funding available through the federal Disaster Relief Fund.
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So is she starting to realize that everything she has done in the past 6 months has done nothing but harm Michigan? And now she’s seeing this in the poll numbers so if she can weasel some federal cash that’ll fix everything? Is that her thought process?
This has worked out better than we thought. A swing state with a Democrat governor using monies from Trump and not from congress. Let’s publicize this for the next 2 1/2 months.
Any state that was in lockdown should be ineligible.
at least we should keep he max at $400 not go back to $600.
“There will be things they are going to want...”
- PDJT, in an early coronavirus press briefing
Trump signed this two weeks ago. Why the long delay in implementing it? What a mess, which might hurt the GOP Senate candidates in November.
No. Zero for those in lockdown states. They can stew in their own stupidity.
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