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Kind of interesting that Trump seems more aware than Congressional Rs that failure to provide more Covid relief will be a political disaster 1/ https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2020%2F08%2F07%2Fworld%2Fcovid-19-news.html%3Fsmid%3Dtw-share&text=Trump%20Vows%20to%20Issue%20Executive%20Orders%20if%20Coronavirus%20Relief%20Talks%20Collapse
But the ideas he's floating are totally disconnected from reality. He may be able to illegally divert a few billion dollars from their legislatively mandated purpose; paying out $70b *a month* in unemployment benefits without authorization, not so much 2/
Suspending payroll tax collections is an illegal solution to a problem we don't have, and does nothing to solve the problems we do 3/
And his insistence that the coronavirus has nothing to do with state budget woes is as crazy as insisting that the pandemic will just vanish, which nobody would ... oh, wait 4/
Surely there are smart economists with Trump's ear who can tell him that he's getting it all wrong. Oh, wait again 5/
