The power grab is more likely to deliver a constitutional crisis than economic relief
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Below is what we know about the executive actions, the death that’s in the details, and what some of the reaction has been. And there is another catch: this federal aid will be available to states that sign on until December 6 — or until the roughly $44 billion in allocated funding runs out, which experts say would likely happen in less than six weeks. Furthermore:
An Potemkin order on eviction protections Trump’s sole executive order of the four measures on Saturday was supposed to help the as many as 40 million Americans facing eviction because of the pandemic, which the order does not actually do.
The deferment also targets Social Security, since that’s what payroll taxes fund and many have criticized the deferment as an attempt to defund the safety net.
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