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That though hes going to pull from the 44000000000. 00 in federal funds that have been set aside for Natural Disaster relief while were in the middle of Hurricane Season or about to be where experts are now predicting over 2525. 00 named storms named storms out little ones name going are going to be hitting the Atlantic Coast i mean possibly the pacific this is not something you want to do plus states are going to chip in to as much as 100. 00 about 400. 00 as well and states are broke from fighting coves they are cash strapped already there are so many states florida being one of his favorites that has only paid out 2 percent of its Unemployment Benefits already i dont know how this is going to actually be helpful for states where does the money come it really is and at the end of the day weve got to get away from this executive order obsession because look the Bush Administration started the start of the obama ramped it up hugely in his administration and now trumps like clearly take
Something is outside of his powers something of the group forget about executive you know executive orders there and theyre not laws theyre not passed by congress theyre not things that every citizen has to obey or every u. S. Business has to but in truth theyre really just for Government Employees at the end of the day theyre really just like heres the president s kind of idea of the direction the government is going to go in but and that does eventually filter out the citizens but theyre not like youre going to get in trouble lets say with the ticktock ban thats a private company a bigger that way its not like you can ban tick tock its absolutely ridiculous but when you dig into what these things you know whats what some of these executives really its you know its not what they appear to be especially movie mirrors they have years ago and you know trump is a great advertiser hes a great marker of himself and i think that hes selling things that the general public doesnt understand no
A lot of republican senators who feel as though they are no longer part of the conversation what trump is done in this and i think that you point to some interesting things here. Hes using this to basically circumvent congress and congressional powers but also i think to bolster this authoritarianism that he personally believes that he thinks that the buck stops with him and hes fine with doing that this is the same president who when obama was in office talked over and over again tweeted over and over again about his use of executive powers about him signing so many executive orders and how much of a problem it was and now were seeing him do actually more than what obama did and he is trying to make sure that he basically sizes things up for this election he knew that it was going to take a long time for anything to get through congress the deliberations were not anywhere where people expected them to be and i think that he is using this to say ok well maybe im doing something for the
Direction the this government is going to go and where and that does the bench really filter out the citizens but theyre not like youre going to get in trouble lets say with the ticktock band thats a private company and to go that way its not like you can ban tick tock its absolutely ridiculous but when you dig into what these things you know whats what some of these executives really its you know its not what they appear to be especially movie mirrors their years ago and you know trump is a great advertiser hes a great marker of himself and i think that hes selling things that the general public doesnt understand know one of his new orders allows employees that make less than 104000. 00 thats the majority of america to delay their payroll tax until january he know january is obviously x. After election day but to do that you also have a massive bill postelection trauma doesnt care about the delegation was already over these of the ferde pretty much everything rental you do have to pay