Nancy Pelosi calls President Trump’s executive actions ‘absurdly unconstitutional’


“That, the fact is, is that whether they are legal or not takes time to find out. I associate my remarks with what Senator (Ben) Sasse says, they are ‘unconstitutional slope.’ At the moment, we want to address the needs of the American people, “she told CNN’s Dana Bash about” State of the Union “when asked if she would prosecute for blocking them. “As my constitutional advisers tell me, they are absurdly unconstitutional.”

On Saturday, Trump bypassed Congress and asserted his executive powers by signing four actions on coronavirus relief after Democrats and the White House were unable to reach an agreement on a stimulus bill.

One of the actions will raise as much as $ 400 in improved unemployment benefits, but that memorandum on improved unemployment benefits – 25% of which states are asked to cover – has added more strings than the White House recognized and is seen as a cumbersome effort that ‘ t many of the unemployed may not help.

The other three actions he signed included a memorandum on a tax break for Americans earning about $ 100,000 a year or less, an executive order on “assistance to tenants and homeowners” and a memorandum on deferral of payments for student loan.

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