Donald Trump’s new executive orders have to do with rapid backwardness of Democrats – and even some Republicans – because lawmakers said the president visited Congress unconstitutionally after negotiations over coronavirus supply on Capitol Hill stopped.
Critics slammed the president for final measures he announced Saturday from his golf club in New Jersey after the U.S. Senate struck down a deal over negotiations for a new coronavirus package.
The orders would reduce additional unemployment benefits provided by the government during the pandemic to $ 400 a week and provide a payroll tax holiday for Americans earning less than $ 100,000 annually, with Mr. Trump saying he those taxes would be forgiven for millions of Americans if he was re-elected in November.
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In an interview on Sunday morning with ABC News, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said the president was essentially “wasting money from Social Security and Medicare trust funds” during his tax vacation, noting how both programs are funded by taxpayer dollars.
He added: “If you are a recipient of Social Security or a recipient of Medicare, you need to be more careful when President Trump is re-elected.”
The orders were described as “unconstitutional slop” in a statement sent to The independent of Ben Sasse (R-NE), one of the rare Senate Republicans to speak out against the president despite his approval.
“The pen-and-phone theory of executive legislation is unconstitutional,” the statement read. “President Obama did not have the power to unilaterally rewrite immigration law with DACA, and President Trump does not have the power to unilaterally rewrite the tax law.”
He added: “Under the Constitution, that power belongs to the American people who act through their members of Congress.”
Chamber member Nancy Pelosi later echoed the Republican senator, calling the mandates “unconstitutional slop” in an interview with Fox News Sunday.
“While he says he will do the tax service, what he is doing is undermining Social Security and Medicare, so these are illusions,” she said, calling the orders “absurdly unconstitutional.”
Republican leadership has refused to vote on the Democrats’ HEROES Act, a $ 3 trillion incentive package, and failed to come up with a bill that would pass a vote before previous aid measures expired last week for millions of Americans.
Val Demings (D-Fl), seen as a leading choice to serve as the Democratic Party’s nominee for vice president, issued a damning statement after the president announced his executive duties, write on Twitter“The American people desperately need help. Instead, the president decided to defuse Social Security and Medicare. ”
Mr. Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, blew out Mr. Trump’s executive order to cut austerity taxes as “a reckless war on social security.”
“He is drawing up his roadmap for cutting Social Security,” Mr Biden said. “Our seniors and millions of Americans with disabilities are under enough stress without questioning Trump’s hard-earned benefits of Social Security.”
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