President Trump Signs Executive Order to Bolster Unemployed With $400 Per Week Payment

President Trump Signs Executive Order to Bolster Unemployed With $400 Per Week Payment

President Donald Trump has bypassed the logjam in Congress and signed on Saturday executive actions aimed at providing critical coronavirus aid, including one that authorizes $400 a week in additional unemployment benefits, with the federal government providing 75% of those funds.

The states will have to provide 25% of the payment.

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The unemployment benefit of $600, which had been paid by the federal government, expired July 31. 

Trump said he was reducing the additional jobless benefit to give the unemployed “an incentive to go back to work.”

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“There was difficulty with the 600 number because it was a disincentive,” Trump said. The number was agreed upon by both parties in March as part of the coronavirus relief legislation, to get money to people quickly as businesses shut down.

Trump signed the orders at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. 

 The executive orders came after legislative and White House negotiators struggled for weeks to come to an agreement between a Democratic $3.5 trillion aid bill, passed by the House in May, and Senate Republicans’ $1 trillion proposal unveiled last week. 

READ THE EXECUTIVE ORDER BELOW:

 

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