Joe Biden - Will he Really be Dem Candidate?

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Originally Posted by Chico23231

Great news as you wake up from your boomer nap G1, Bigly is signing executive orders for covid aid.

https://www.yahoo.com/money/coronavi...183132419.html


Coronavirus stimulus: Extending extra unemployment benefits through executive order 'would really be a nightmare'


President Trump signed several executive orders to address various issues related to the coronavirus pandemic after negotiations with Congressional Democrats over a new stimulus bill fell apart.

The immediate implications of the executive orders are unclear, and the unilateral route may be particularly messy when it comes to extending extra unemployment insurance (UI) benefits that expired after July.

“An executive order [on extra unemployment benefits] would really be a nightmare,” Michele Evermore, senior policy analyst at the National Employment Law Project, told Yahoo Money. “It would just end up resulting in people thinking they're getting a benefit but states being unable to figure out how to do it in many cases.”

“States would have to set up a whole different system to pay out that piece of benefits,” Evermore explained. “I've heard from state agencies that getting the money this way would be difficult, if not impossible, to administer.”

President Trump told reporters on Friday that he would extend the benefits through the end of the year through executive action but didn’t specify whether he would extend the now-expired $600 provided by the CARES Act or cut the extra benefits (as Republicans previously proposed).

On Saturday, Trump claimed that one of his executive orders would implement $400 in extra weekly unemployment benefits until the end of the year, though it’s not clear if or when that would happen.