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It’s Trump Versus Democrats, Republicans and Economists
The president personalized the public-health response to the pandemic. Will he use the same disastrous strategy for the economy?
The dangers of do-it-yourself economic policy.
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Negotiations on the next coronavirus relief package appear to be making slow but real progress ahead of Congress’s self-proclaimed deadline on Friday. But Donald Trump has threatened to derail everything with a series of executive actions.
Most notably, he says he’ll impose the payroll tax holiday that members of Congress from both parties oppose. He’s also threatening to use the maneuver to extend the supplemental unemployment insurance benefits that expired last week, and to take other actions.