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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed executive orders Saturday for coronavirus economic relief, upending negotiations with Congress after lawmakers failed to reach a deal on Friday.
The executive orders establish a payroll tax holiday through the end of the year for Americans earning less than $100,000 a year.
They also defer student loan payments through the end of the year; continue eviction moratoriums; and extend enhanced unemployment benefits that expired last week, but at a reduced level of $400 instead of the prior $600.
"If I'm victorious on November 3rd, I plan to forgive these taxes and make permanent cuts to the payroll tax," Trump said. "Joe Biden and the Democrats may not want that, they don't want that."
Trump signs executive orders on coronavirus economic relief
Looks like Trump got tired of Congress not getting anything done....he bypassed them
Trump has been trying on this rule by decree idea for some time.
He’s counting on no one standing up to this lastest attempt at another power grab.
This is out and out facism. As anti democratic as anything that has ever happened in US history.
If it is not stopped, democracy in the United States is over.