{"id":27363,"date":"2020-08-08T15:21:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T22:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=27363"},"modified":"2020-08-08T15:21:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T22:21:45","slug":"trump-signs-executive-order-on-coronavirus-relief-without-1200-checks-after-rambling-attack-on-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=27363","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs executive order on coronavirus relief without $1,200 checks after rambling attack on Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With talks for a new coronavirus stimulus package stalled, President Donald Trump signed a package of coronavirus stimulus measures that he will seek to implement unilaterally by executive action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis pretty much takes care of the whole situation,\u201d Trump said before exiting the contentious event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re coming back very strong,\u201d he added. \u201cWe\u2019re doing great with the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump moved to extend a scaled-down emergency unemployment benefits and an eviction ban, along with relaxing rules for repaying college loans.<\/p>\n<div class=\"caas-da\">\n<div id=\"defaultdestINARTICLE\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump reduced the extended unemployment benefit to $400 instead of the previous $600, and ordered states to foot 25% of the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also moved to suspend payroll taxes for those making $100,000 a year or less.<\/p>\n<p>He pointedly did not propose sending a new round of $1,200 checks to all American taxpayers, perhaps the most popular coronavirus stimulus measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With talks for a new coronavirus&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27364,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27363\/revisions\/27364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}