Wednesday, August 12, 2020

The Problem with Trump’s Latest EO’s*

...is not that they are illegal or unconstitutional (in print they are neither), but they are wholly ineffective. People depending on UI benefits or owing student loans don’t care about legal analyses; they care about what they receive or owe. Trump’s order doesn’t affect private student loans and requires the states set up a separate bureaucracy to disburse the UI funds. If the states pony up their 25%. If they don’t and Trump tries to get around that, that’s where the order becomes illegal.

But the biggest problem is still Trump’s ineptness. He can’t run government, he can only screw it up. That ineptitude is not going to win him re-election.

*Actually only one EO; the others are memoranda.
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