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While Congress Leads on Coronavirus, Trump Only Follows
A president who says he likes the idea of big, unprecedented action is in a purely reactive posture when it comes to helping the economy.
Who’s leading whom?
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It’s still early, but I think we can already say that Donald Trump is totally failing when it comes to economic leadership during the coronavirus recession.
The thing about the 10 million — 10 million! — people who have filed for unemployment in the last two weeks is that everyone has seen this coming for some time. Indeed, it is to Congress’s credit that it rapidly passed three bills to provide at least some relief.