Trump wants states to pay 25% of his new unemployment benefit. States say they can't afford it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Donald Trump is calling on states to provide 25 percent of the expanded unemployment benefit his recently signed executive order calls for.

But in states facing significant budget shortfalls because of the COVID-19 pandemic, governors say the idea they can pitch in for a quarter of the expanded benefits for the foreseeable future is misguided.

"The concept of saying to states 'you pay 25 percent of the unemployment insurance is just laughable,'" New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, said Sunday. "The whole issue here was getting states funding, state and local funding. You can't now say to states who have no funding, and you have to pay 25 percent of the unemployment insurance cost."

Maine Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, said Trump's action flies in the face of what states and localities have been pushing for — substantial budget relief.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-wants-states-to-pay-25-of-his-new-unemployment-benefit-states-say-they-can-t-afford-it/ar-BB17NYa1?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=DELLDHP

[soothsayer]

1. Yeah I knew he was lying at the presser when they asked him

He couldn’t tell the truth if his life depended on it.

[PoliticAverse]

2. Either the states borrow the money or the federal government does. n/t

[MichMan]

3. Some states pay significantly more than others already

In some cases, by a few hundred dollars. The max amount in Kentucky is already $102 higher than in California, so don't tell me that California can't afford another $100.

Yet, prior to the pandemic, the individual states expected those amounts to be sufficient for those who found themselves unemployed. I was unemployed in 2009 for an entire year and received the max amount in my state of $362 per week. 11 years later, and the max amount is still $362 per week.

2020 is the first year that the Federal government ever supplemented those amounts.