I think this is going to be a fiasco. Congress still has the power of the purse strings and Pelosi has stated that he just can't move that much money around. Trump states that he'll probably get sued. This e.o. apparently has nothing to do with the stimulus. It includes exemptions from evictions, but what about the mortgage companies and banks and people who own rentals that are dependent on the income from the rentals???
Trump orders $400-per-week unemployment payments amid COVID crisis, hits Dems for stonewallingPresident Trump signed four executive orders Saturday aimed at delivering relief to Americans struggling with the economic fallout of the coronavirus while accusing Democrats of stonewalling greater aid.
Trump announced a $400-per-week supplemental unemployment payment to out-of-work Americans -- short of the $600 weekly benefit that expired in the end of July. He unveiled a payroll tax holiday to Americans earning less than $100,000 through the end of the year, an extension of student loan relief to the end of the year and protections from evictions.
Trump blamed Democrats for the coronavirus deal stalemate in Congress and said he'd take matters into his own hands.
"Democrats are obstructing all of it," Trump said. "Therefore I'm taking executive action ...and we're going to save American jobs and provide relief to the American workers.".........
.............Because of provisions in the Constitution that grant the legislative branch spending power, the White House can't just pull hundreds of billions out of the ether without Congressional approval.
But the Trump administration believes it has access to $140 billion which it can “reprogram.†That includes $80 billion in untapped money from the big coronavirus bill signed into law in March and $40 billion from the Disaster Relief Fund.
The White House believes it can divert some of this funding without congressional blessing, similar to how Trump in 2019 declared a national emergency at the border with Mexico to shift billions of dollars from the Pentagon budget to help pay for a border wall.
Pelosi and Schumer earlier this week expressed skepticism about Trump's executive powers."You can't move that much money," Pelosi said. "We're talking about a major investment...............
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-to-sign-coronavirus-relief-executive-orders-saturday-to-help-unemployed-americans-renters
