White House says 'stay tuned' for Trump executive orders as virus relief negotiations crumble
Negotiations between Democrats, Republicans, and the White House over a new stimulus bill are at a stalemate after two weeks, and President Trump is now expected to attempt to bypass the need for a deal by enacting executive orders on various issues.on Friday when asked about executive powers. “You can be assured [the president] will be out and about today, and probably tomorrow, talking about this.
“The president’s first choice is to do a deal,” Mnuchin told reporters on Thursday. “If we conclude tomorrow that there is not a compromise position on the major issues, the president has alternatives.” “My understanding about unemployment is that the administration cannot unilaterally create a policy to pay people and that it has to be done through legislation,” Gbenga Ajilore, a senior economist at the Center for American Progress, a non-profit for public policy research and advocacy, told Yahoo Money.As for a payroll tax cut, experts have said that he has limited authority to postpone the employee side of the payroll but not to suspend it.
The disagreements between the two parties are about the overall funding for the bill — the Democrats’ HEROES Act is worth over $3 trillion while the is worth $1 trillion — as well as some of the stimulus provisions involving the inclusion of liability protection for business and schools, additional unemployment benefits that expired after July, and a federal eviction moratorium that expired in July.
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