Please leave your name and the city you are calling from. Also, social media, cspanwj is our twitter handle. Com giving thell. Basic contours of what happened yesterday. On saturday President Donald Trump signed a series of executive actions intended to extend and expand covid19 relief, including extending payroll tax collection and boosting unemployment benefits. It is not clear the Legal Authority under which the president was acting, which came at a News Conference in his in new jersey at his country club in host those are the basics. We will get to the details in a moment. From the president yesterday at this event in new jersey on why he did this. [video clip] democrats are actively blocking the things we want and what we want is good for people. Support for k12 schools so that they can open. Inc. Of that. The, direct payments at 3400 for a family of or bang. Ofs, funding for family four. Plus, funding for Mental Health care and you need that when you have so much of a lockdown. Rental assistance. Support for Community Banks and Credit Unions to help them divide 100 billion in loans to the hardest hit communities, including Rural Communities and farmers. They dont want anyone to get that. Democrats are obstructing all of it. Therefore we are going to provide relief to the american. Orkers host to the details from the Washington Post. They say that one of the measures he signed aims to provide 400 in weekly unemployment aid for millions of americans. 25 host another document signed by trump on saturday looks to defer payroll tax for people who earn less than 100,000 per year. The impact of this measure would depend on whether companies decide to comply. They could be responsible for withdrawing the money from paychecks when those are due. One more passage here in the post, host first, your reaction. Robert is on the line. Independent caller, good morning, what do you think of the president s actions . I think his actions are more of a show. He has no power to implement anything. I think its all for show. He doesnt really have a plan. Juliet is on the line from rockport, massachusetts. Hey, juliet. Donald trump is brilliant as usual, circumventing congress, taking the message directly to the American People. Strategic, and how can democrats reject this platform . Yes, perhaps he has taken it upon himself to act executive ly and itexecutive may not be able to pass, but the message goes to the people who see how Obstructionist Congress is being and there is just no one that will come through in a fashion that is going to see that if this fails the American People, this is a big win for President Trump and i think that strategic this allencompassing strategy, its going to work, painting them into a corner, im afraid it is going to fail. Thank you for taking my call. On the democrats line. Marvin, the sick the president signed a series of executive actions yesterday to were,eople afloat, as it during this pandemic. Will it work . Iat do you think . Caller think it is a ploy, to put it in , to say that. I was listening to the cholera couple of minutes ago, it aint going to work. Nowhey give him that power, he can sign executive orders for everything. Congress are the ones that hold the purse, you know . They delegate the money. Untilt wont past november. The only thing it will do is cause confusion. Telling the congress and the senate to stay in session until something gets signed, this is a political tour and i dont think it is going to work. Its causing indecisiveness in this country. We have to be reunited on all fronts. Republicans and democrats. This is the first stop where we have been divided and it is causing the problem. These are the messages that are coming through, putting people on one plane. Lots more of your calls coming in, but reaction from the hill, here is Speaker Pelosi and Chuck Schumer in the senate today. Todays meager announcement shows president does not comprehend the seriousness or the emergency of the health and economic crisis facing working families and these announcements do nothing to increase testing, reopen schools, put food on the table for hungry families, prevent heroes host that is from the Democratic Leaders in congress. Heres a republican caller from geneva, north carolina. Whats the name of your town . Caller [indiscernible] host whats your reaction to the president s announcement yesterday . Im strongly concerned about what happens to the people renting when the people that rent dont feel they have to pay rent, because they have paid. The Small Business person at great risk of going payr because they cannot their insurance, their taxes, and their mortgage. Need help. Andrew, your thoughts on the president s actions . Will they help . Will they make a difference . Caller im not really sure. I dont think its going to make a lot of difference. What i believe is in the federal tax cut. Those taxes are the lifeblood of Social Security and medicare. Maybe not today, but in a short time its going to start affecting seniors, people with disabilities. Life blood of those programs. Trump when he was running for president said he would never mess with them. Thats it, thats all she gets. It accounts for so much of their income. Reelected, he might keep it in place . You know what hes doing, hes just trying to do what he always wanted. Get rid of Social Security, get rid of medicare. What about the seniors, the gig workers . That 1200at loved it helped the economy. People were able to help the economy and pay down their debt. Theres no 1200 anymore for the people that really, really that was important to them. What do you make of the fact that congress has not been able to make a deal on a new bill and say that they will come back if something is reached, what do you think of that . I think that mark meadows, being such a tea party there is absolutely not going to be more than 1 trillion, whatever. Orders. Executive 20 republicans dont want anything. Plenty of them absolutely dont want to do anything. Mitch mcconnell, with the stunt know, thats you what hes trying to stay away from this. Nancy pelosi, i could say there is something in there, but they are ready to go down and go below 2 trillion as long as money gets to the state. Not the states paying 25 of peoples unemployment that he has lowered to 400. You know, the schools, thats 13 billion for schools. Thats not going to cut it. Let me tell you host andrew, you made a lot of points there, let me get some other people in. Here is joe bidens response to other president did yesterday. More therefrom biden, the executive orders that were signed. Payroll taxes partially fund Social Security. Heres Mitch Mcconnell, on the executive order. Host here is the headline from wall street journal, trump extends unemployment benefit at 400 a week. Heres more from the president , yesterday. [video clip] Congressional Democrats have stonewalled our efforts to they evens relief and oppose measures that would give bonuses to workers returning to the job. They were totally opposed to that. Im taking action to provide additional or extra 400 per week and expanded benefits. 400, ok . Want toenerous, but we take care of our people. It wasnt their fault, it was chinas fault. States will be asked to cover 25 of the costs using existing funding, like the tens of billions of dollars available to them under the Coronavirus Relief fund. The federal government will cover 75 of the costs. We are all set up. Its 400 per week. We are doing that without the democrats. We should have been able to do it easily, but they want all of these additional things that have nothing to do with helping people. Jersey,dminster, new yesterday. Larry, florida, your reaction to the president s actions yesterday . Caller yeah, good morning, cspan. Good morning. I just wanted to voice my opinion. I never heard nothing about the stimulus package. Know, us people here, i dont think thats going to fly. Because a lot of people ate going to go back to work when you can make more money setting home. I hope you dont cut me off, i got the call one other time before and your partner there pedro cut me off. Point,d to make a something for people to think about out there, i think a lot of these calls that are coming in our plants. Most people cant right now i cant hardly say everything that i want to say because you dont have time, but these people that go on for 10 minutes and dont even take a breath, they got everything wrote down what they going to say and i truly believe that a lot of these are professional callers. Host we do understand the point, but this is your chance to speak now about the policy, so why dont you go ahead . Caller i get that. You are missing my point, changing the subject, you dont want to believe what im saying. Host actually, larry, i will give you one more chance. I do understand the point, i did say that, but the point right now is the question we are asking about the president s actions. Do you want to talk about that . Caller yes, i do. I just want to say that trump is a gift from god and thank you very much, i knew you was going to cut my off me off. Have a good day. Host well, larry finishes call without getting cut off, just for the record. Carolyn, good morning. Whats your reaction to the president . Caller i very much resent how trump,ney that president back in february, when he should have been taking care of these things, he was playing golf. Still playing golf. He is lazy and doesnt give a me,that people like elderly people like me who depend upon medicare, who depend upon the money i have already ,orked for and am entitled to all of that. If hes playing golf . Hes all of that. And hes playing golf . Hes playing golf. How much of this is his fault from february when he didnt observe the warnings of covid, he was playing golf. Hes still and he is lazy. He does not do his homework. He is directly affecting my welfare and wellbeing. Carolyn, thank you for calling. Bernie is calling. Why you are defending yourself, i dont understand. When someone rants and lanes that you are not being fair, its so obvious hes offbase. Dont defend yourself, let him rant. As far as the president is concerned, its transparent. The country has to understand, or should understand if you are looking, there is only one thing that this man wants. Its for himself. Hes not willing to sacrifice for the country. Its donald trump. Its all about donald trump. Its a good thing that hes not as smart as mussolini. Because if he was, we would really have a problem. We do. We still have a problem. This is about donald trump. Congress at a stalemate, they point out here that it was not clear the authority that mr. Trump had to act on his own on the measures or what immediate effect if any it would have, but his decision assign the measures billed relief for student borrowers and 400 a week, with the unemployed ebony is calling now. Plattsburgh, new york. Hello. I just wanted to know, does the executive order last . There never was a date on there. How long it is supposed to last or anything. On variouspends provisions. Just going back to the New York Times story. There were different dates floating around. Tell us more about what you think about what the president did. Caller i feel like he took things into his own hands to try to come up with a mutual deal for people to be able to collect unemployment, but they are still like, you know, able to like go to work. , i just feel like it is definitely going to help, especially since im a black, im an africanamerican, and black, that does, like, im unable to operate a business or do anything. Feel like a sense of , because iittle bit would have been able to receive it. But other than that, the other stuff, like for the people who are older age, i feel like [indiscernible] do [indiscernible] relief. Host to ebonys question on the , theloyment relief president plans to provide unemployment relief to millions of americans. States,ld come from the fema funds would be a host so, thats what he had to say there about that lets go back to the president , yesterday, where he was asked about the states, the governors, kicking in 25 of the benefits. [video clip] which governors have said they would sign on . Dont, if theyy dont, they dont. The states have the money, its sitting there. Host we will see how that plays out with the states and we will see many governors reacting today. Of theresley, Chairman Senate finance committee reacting to this. Strategycratic jeopardizes certainty, the American People need to pay their bills host more reaction from congress, there. Rocky is calling clearwater. Caller trump is trying his best, you know . If he signs a bill to get people to open, you are not giving him enough credit. The guy is doing everything he can. That guy, biden, they try to make him look all good. He cant even speak right, if you ever heard him talk. Like on those commercials, 25, 35 before he gets it right. Thats what he doesnt want to have a thing with trump where he goes back and forth. Trump is doing a great job. Me, in florida, people like they are coming from new york and buying these homes left and right, all around, where i live. The prices are going up. You know, some places are maybe doing bad. They are not giving him enough credit. Making him look like the baddest guy in the world. And trying the best he can all of these democrats are putting him there to try to make eye look like make biden look like hes great. The guy doesnt even know how to speak right. Trump, trump is going to make him look like a fool, i know he is. A lot of people think the same way. Host thanks. Will is calling on the republican line. Good morning, will. This action was necessary because of the partisan gridlock that is currently freezing everything going on in washington. I would like to put out a misnomer about the unemployment benefits. The cares act expired on july 31, the benefits actually ceased on the previous saturday, july 25, because unemployment weeks go sunday to saturday. It expired on a friday. The whole week vanished. We are entering now our third week of people receiving benefits and this money is going directly back into the economy. These people are not making investments or going on vacation. They are surviving on the money. Florida depends on the service and hospitality industries. I know of hotels running at only 30 when historically they run at 90 . I had a dinner out last week for a birthday at a National Chain restaurant that served 14 covers the entire evening. Herecans are not traveling because of spite. Florida depends on tourism money. I cant speak for the rest of the country, but you know, the point ofdia missed the when the benefits expired and now it is desperate again about when they will pick back up. You forll, thank calling. Back to the earlier question about dates, the wall street journal talking about these extra jobless benefits. They say the added benefits will be paid from the Disaster Relief fund, like we talked about. Sets asides actions 45 billion in the fund host so, more precisely, december 6 what we are reading in the wall street journal. Jason is calling from lynn, massachusetts. Thank you for waiting, independent caller. Caller pelosi didnt want to give the president when. The enhanced unemployment benefit had to be reduced. Thats something that had to be done because we are hearing, and i know you are hearing it, people are having a hard time with people at home making more on unemployment than they would on their regular job. The enhanced benefit had to be reduced and it was only reduced by a third. The second point is, if, we could be sitting here right now talking about expired benefits and the unemployed in turmoil and upside down next week. The talks broke down, President Trump acted. Thats the bottom line. Whether he can do certain things in his relief package by executive order is still not clear, but hes trying to give money to the people in trying to incentivize to get back to work because doors are opening. We are not shut down like florida. Theres no reason that an employer who needs people where jobs are available should have to fight for the extra money to say that i cant staff right now. It makes us stagnant. I think the president did something thats a step in the right direction. They want to come back to the table . At least there is money flowing to the people that need it right now. Massachusetts,om there. Much has been made so far over the last 24 hours in which the president did this. Why 400 instead of 600 . Heres what he had to say about it yesterday. [video clip] this is the money they need, the money they want, giving them a great incentive to go back to work. The 600 was a number that was there and as you know, there was difficulty with the 600 number because it really was a disincentive. Sharon, inglewood, california, on the line for democrats, thank you for calling. Caller im calling because im a senior and President Trump, im appalled by this. Hes going into the Medicare Part of our insurance and taking money from that fund. I worked my whole life and im very upset by the fact that this man decided to go in here and do this. Seniors cannot afford medicare test for cannot afford venison, housing, food. For him to do Something Like this to the people is abhorrent. He needs to be ashamed of himself. Host anything else, sharon . Done, ifm pretty much i say anything else, i will probably be off the air. Im very livid. T understood, sherilyn sharon. Chuck, the president s plan, with a work and will it withstand legal muster . I really think its time that leaders need to look out for the people and move forward. Its one issue. We have thousands of issues and they are going to take all this time on one issue when it really ought to be just moving on to the next of whats needed for the people. Think about the people first and not their personal agenda. Thank you for calling. Host thanks. Whereco. 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