What really happened here? Well, note that this is pre-lawsuit stage of yet another of his outrageous Executive Orders (and remember his claims of outrage over Obama’s E.O.s?!?!).
But wait — it’s not an Executive Order, it a “Memorandum.”
Memorandum-on-Deferring-Payroll-Tax-Obligations-in-Light-of-the-Ongoing-COVID-19-Disaster-_-The-White-HouseDownload
So what does that mean? What authority does a “Memorandum” have?
What does it mean? Here’s Forbes take on it — note writer is calling it an Executive Order… but it isn’t! I haven’t a clue the difference…
President’s Executive Order On Payroll Taxes – Some Detail
And there is this:
Republican senator calls Trump’s stimulus executive order ‘unconstitutional slop’
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