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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStimulus talks break down on Capitol Hill as negotiators walk away without a deal
No additional discussions are planned after nearly two weeks of daily meetings, and lead White House negotiators Mark Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin say they are recommending President Donald Trump move ahead with a series of executive orders aimed at extending the federal moratorium on evictions, continuing federal unemployment benefits and suspending the payroll tax.
"We will recommend to the President based upon our lack of activity today to move forward with some executive orders," Mnuchin said Friday.
The executive orders are expected to meet fierce resistance from Democrats who plan to challenge them in court. Democrats warn that executive action taken will be insufficient to address the extent of the economic and public health crisis faced by Americans during the pandemic.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/07/politics/stimulus-talks-coronavirus/index.html
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 posts)Die already you depraved turtle and take munchbag with you,and the
dumpster.. hell take all the rethugs and every last magat too. I will rejoice when these evil motherfuckers die along with thier putrid fantasies about government ..
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Democrats were finally in on some of these meetings just this week after the White House and congressional Republicans dicked around and ran out the clock last week. And now Trump is going to just wave his magic executive order pen and save the country? Yeah, right. I'm sure there will be hordes of scandalized Republicans running in front of every available camera to decry such high-handed unconstitutional activity. Yeah, right.
Republicans stalled for two months, forced yet another manufactured crisis, then refused to bargain in good faith. The bodies are piling up across the nation, and Republicans couldn't care less. Their paychecks are still being directly deposited on the regular.
ProfessorGAC
(64,988 posts)The Rs negotiated in bad faith to set up a PINO grandstand play.
EOs might have been the plan the whole time.
spanone
(135,816 posts)crickets
(25,960 posts)for putting the country through this misery. Just goes to show any of them claiming to be Christian is a big, fat liar because it's obvious none of them believe in hell either.