OK. The text for the EOs is available. Quick breakdown.

EO 1 - student loan.

Here's the operative paragraph. As far as I can tell, it does not actually suspend either payment obligations or interest accumulation.
Moreover, the cited statutory provision does not, AFAICT, permit the Secretary to set interest rates to zero or change the deferment requirements. Nor, I suspect, would it change whatever effect a deferment might have on things like public service loan forgiveness programs.
Moreover, the cited statutory provision does not, AFAICT, permit the Secretary to set interest rates to zero or change the deferment requirements. Nor, I suspect, would it change whatever effect a deferment might have on things like public service loan forgiveness programs.
Moreover, the cited statutory provision does not, AFAICT, permit the Secretary to set interest rates to zero or change the deferment requirements. Nor, I suspect, would it change whatever effect a deferment might have on things like public service loan forgiveness programs.
EO 2 - Rent freeze.

This EO does nothing. It tells Treasury and HUD to look for money. That's about it.
EO 3 - Payroll Tax holiday.

This is potentially dangerous. Because it might stop collecting the tax, but it doesn't stop the tax debt from accumulating. A lot of people could wind up in a lot of trouble with this one.
EO 4 - Unemployment Insurance Extension.

In a plot literally stolen from House of Cards, this uses FEMA money - at the frigging START of a predicted more-active-than-usual hurricane season - to sort of extend payments, but at a $400 level, and only if states agree to pay 25%
Given the number of people currently collecting benefits of some kind, if every state accepts the extension, the money looks like it might last about 6 weeks, maybe less.

So there's today's fiasco in a nutshell.
Ps -

I've got to run. Text for EOs is available on White House website.
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