Here are some questions that remain unanswered.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Democrats had forced Trump's hand and he was"glad the president stepped in."
"If the Democrats want to challenge us in court and hold up unemployment benefits to those hardworking Americans that are out of a job because of COVID, they're going to have a lot of explaining to do," Mnuchin told "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace. Jonathan Turley – a law professor at George Washington University who argued against Trump's impeachment before the House Judiciary Committee and a USA TODAY contributor – said Trump's action was"dubious at best" and"openly circumventing Congress in areas that are left expressly to Congress in the Constitution, specifically that Congress was given control over taxation.
But Blackman says the law explicitly allows for the president to delay the collection of taxes for up to a year. For that reason, any challenge to the order on payroll taxes was certain for defeat, unless they continued to be deferred past the 12-month window.The two experts also differed on whether Trump was justified in usingto fund the $400"assistance program for lost wages.
The $400 in enhanced benefits that Trump is ordering would be effective for the unemployment week ending Aug. 1 and would continue through Dec. 27. "The whole issue here was getting states funding, state and local funding," Cuomo said."You can’t now say to states who have no funding, you have to pay 25% of the unemployment insurance cost."
At the Saturday news conference when he signed the orders, Trump was asked what would happen if states refuse to put up their share of the funding."If they don’t, they don’t," he said."That’s up to them."
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