What Trump's weekend action on unemployment shows about what he wants from the next stimulus package

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• President Trump's executive actions over the weekend address a payroll tax deferral, extending the eviction moratorium, enhancing unemployment benefits, and relieving student loan debt. 
• Each of these is an issue in congress' ongoing negotiations for another stimulus package, which have repeatedly broken down since late July.
• But the four actions taken by Trump — only one of which was an actual executive order — may not be constitutional, because they would bypass congress' taxation and spending powers.
• One of the actions would cut off funding for Social Security and Medicare, two programs he vowed in the 2016 campaign not to touch. It has to do with the payroll tax, which Trump has repeatedly suggested cutting during the pandemic.
• Trump's memorandum on unemployment would effectively cut the program in place since March from a $600 weekly bonus to $400, while making states foot more of the bill. 
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The federal government made history in March when it passed into law a $2.2 trillion stimulus package that included an unprecedented expansion of unemployment benefits and a $349 billion program for small-business lending. 

The unprecedented package, which also included $1,200 checks sent to many Americans, was a success in keeping the economy afloat, as reported by Business Insider's Joseph Zeballos-Roig and Carmen Reinicke. There's just one problem: it expired in late July without a replacement in place, and as coronavirus cases began to spike again in late June, another is probably necessary.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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