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<\/p>\nRUSH: Trump and the suspension of the payroll tax, the Democrats\u2019 panicked reaction to it. Oh, by the way, guess who now wants to talk to Trump about the extended coronavirus bill?<\/p>\n
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That would be Schumer and Pelosi. He called their bluff, and he\u2019s going to, with executive orders, go ahead and follow through on coronavirus continued relief for people who are unemployed, and they now want to be part of it.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: There was a tweet on Friday or Saturday by Mark Knoller, who used to be at CBS. They fired him in a bloodletting. They had to get rid of some people. It was to reduce the number of staff kind of move. So he\u2019s out there. He was beloved within the Washington press corps so he still tweets, and they still report the tweets.<\/p>\n
And his tweet was: “Pres says he\u2019s ordering a payroll tax holiday for those making less than $100K\/year. Would be in effect from August 1 to the end of 2020. Says if he\u2019s re-elected he\u2019ll extend the holiday and terminate the tax.”<\/p>\n
And, lo and behold, it happened. Trump on Saturday signed a series of executive orders expanding the coronavirus economic relief to Americans struggling during the pandemic. There are four of these things, four of these executive orders. Let me go through them for you.<\/p>\n
The first executive order continues additional federal unemployment benefits at $400 a week. That is $200 a week less than the Democrats were demanding. And the states are expected to way one-fourth of this, or $100. The second executive order creates a payroll tax holiday for Americans earning less than a hundred thousand dollars annually. The third executive order extends the eviction moratorium on federal subsidized housing. And the fourth executive order suspends student loan payments.<\/p>\n
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And this is still not, or it was still not, good enough for the Democrats. They blew up. Now, the media isn\u2019t reporting it, but Trump is using FEMA money to pay for this. He\u2019s just shifting the money from FEMA over to where he wants it to go here under the authority — are you ready for this? — under the authority of the 1988 Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, meaning it\u2019s lawful. The Stafford Act is the law under which the executive branch provides assistance to state and local governments after a natural disaster, which the coronavirus lockdown surely is.<\/p>\n
Good grief. If there ever is a definition of a natural disaster caused by us, it is this, shutting down the U.S. economy and destroying it. So Trump is well within the law to do this, and he did it because he couldn\u2019t get Pelosi and Schumer to go along with him.<\/p>\n
Oh, but then just this morning, 30 minutes before the program began, the president tweeted the following: “So now Schumer and Pelosi want to meet to make a deal. Amazing how it all works, isn\u2019t it. Where have they been for the last 4 weeks when they were ‘hardliners\u2019, and only wanted BAILOUT MONEY for Democrat run states and cities that are failing badly? They know my phone number!”<\/p>\n
So Trump\u2019s point is he issues the executive orders, takes care of the problem. They\u2019re not part of it, their fingerprints are nowhere to be found on the solution. He is totally within his legal rights to have these executive orders, to issue them, now all of a sudden they want to talk to him. Now Schumer and Pelosi want to meet to make a deal.<\/p>\n
And I have a companion story here in The Stack<\/a>. Liz Peek, Fox News, the Fox Business Network — by the way, the Fox Business Network, they\u2019re not nearly as politically focused as the Fox News Channel is. By definition, they wouldn\u2019t be. They\u2019re more focused on the business aspect of things. And Liz Peek has a story here: “Trump\u2019s Big Win On Relief Orders – Here\u2019s Why Pelosi, Schumer Are So Unhappy.”<\/a><\/p>\n Now, I know, folks, that it\u2019s inescapable, the mainstream media makes it look as though we\u2019re always losing. And it\u2019s tough, I mean, you have to acknowledge it. It\u2019s just a look. It\u2019s just an appearance. It\u2019s never universally true. But they make it look that way. It used to be the case that we were losing more than winning.<\/p>\n But the thing is, Trump does not lose. He may get setbacks now and then, but he\u2019s a problem solver. You might say he\u2019s an addicted problem solver. He\u2019s highly motivated to find ways around blockades like Chuck and Nancy, and not by caving to them. This is the thing. He doesn\u2019t try to appease them. He finds legitimate ways around them, and he takes them, and then here they come now wanting to be part of it.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Now, back to Liz Peek. I just need to share a couple of pull quotes from this story of hers because she is convinced that Trump is just running rings around Pelosi and Schumer and that they\u2019re unhappy and they want to be part of the deal. They\u2019re very upset that Trump went the executive order route.<\/p>\n She says, “The president boxed the Democrats in – how can they possibly challenge his orders or take his mandated benefits away from people?” Now that he has mandated these benefits, how can the Democrats take \u2019em away?” Don\u2019t put it past them. They are all about creating chaos.<\/p>\n Folks, I never got around to this last week, but there was a part of me last week that said that the Democrats do not want the coronavirus benefits extended. That they want instead the chaos that would ensue. They want the pain. They want the evictions. They want the suffering. They want people being laid off. They want landlords foreclosing. They want that chaos in order to blame it on Trump, just like they\u2019re creating the chaos in their own blue states and cities.<\/p>\n Anyway, hang in. Your calls are coming up.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Let me finish the pull quote from Liz Peek. This is good stuff. “Mainly, Pelosi and Schumer stonewalled because they want to torpedo the U.S. economy.” I\u2019m telling you, folks, last week they were all about the chaos that would ensue if there were no extension of the coronavirus relief bill. That\u2019s who these people are. If you doubt me, look at what they\u2019re allowing to happen in their own states and cities.<\/p>\n Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland — by the way, speaking of Seattle, there is a weather guy, a meteorologist for NPR who wrote a piece about Seattle and compared it to 1938 Nazi Germany. And he has been fired. There is no freedom of speech anymore in leftist states or cities or leftist-run businesses. NPR, of course, exists with government grants and your donations. Without your pledge, they can\u2019t dust.<\/p>\n So the guy gets canned because he\u2019s in Seattle, he\u2019s writing about what he\u2019s seeing. What\u2019s the significance of it looking like 1938 Germany? It\u2019s that whatever the Nazis, the national socialists were doing, nobody stood up to stop it. Nobody stood up to oppose it. Property was being commandeered and destroyed by brownshirts, the SS and the government. Nobody was doing anything to stop it. This guy\u2019s scared to death over what he\u2019s seeing. He gets canned.<\/p>\n Democrats want the chaos. They want to be able to blame Trump if your unemployment checks stop, if you get evicted by your landlord, if your business is shut down, if the economy remains in the clunker. So Trump comes along with executive orders and suspends the Democrats\u2019 attempts at chaos. Pelosi and Schumer stonewall because they want to torpedo the U.S. economy.<\/p>\n “Democrats know that creating jobs is Trump\u2019s signature achievement, and also the most important issue to voters,” right now. It isn\u2019t COVID-19. It isn\u2019t Joe Biden. The number one issue is getting back to work. “By blocking the next round of stimulus, they intentionally undermined the financial security of tens of millions of Americans.”<\/p>\n No question that that\u2019s true. The thing is, Pelosi and Schumer, the Democrats, don\u2019t care. They don\u2019t care that they\u2019ve undermined the financial security of tens of millions of Americans. “Their priority is beating President Trump. The American people be damned.” This is absolutely true. It\u2019s absolutely the case, which makes Brian Stelter running around concerned about all the bashing of Biden going on particularly laughable.<\/p>\n But Liz Peek writes this. “But aren\u2019t Democrat leaders confident they will oust Trump in November?” See, this is the question you need to keep asking yourself. Why all this concern? Haven\u2019t they already beat Trump? Isn\u2019t Trump down 10 points to Biden over here and 12 points to Biden over there? Isn\u2019t Trump down 15 points in the battleground precincts? Isn\u2019t Trump losing in all of these important states?<\/p>\n The point is, the answer to the question is it\u2019s a big, fat bunch of BS that they think Trump\u2019s gonna lose. They don\u2019t believe that any more than you or I do. They are not confident of their own polls. All of this is manufactured news designed to depress you, to keep you at home, to make you think that Trump\u2019s base has abandoned him. There\u2019s no reason why you shouldn\u2019t abandon him. Hasn\u2019t that been their message of late? That we\u2019re gonna see not just a blue wave, we\u2019re gonna see a blue tsunami. We\u2019re gonna see the Democrat Party take over the country so big, so vast, they\u2019re never gonna lose control of it.<\/p>\n This optimism is fake. Just like their news. This optimism is entirely manufactured. It\u2019s aimed at driving down your turnout. It\u2019s aimed at destroying Republican fundraising. The Democrats know that Biden\u2019s brief surge is already fading. I mentioned it at the top of the hour when I told you why my confidence is being renewed in terms of the outcome here. There\u2019s only a three-point spread in the Hill poll, the latest Harris-Hill poll. It\u2019s not going the right direction for the Democrats.<\/p>\n Biden\u2019s lead is slipping nationally and in the swing states. The Democrats read these polls. They know this is going to be close. It\u2019s why they\u2019re trying to keep the economy flatlined. The last thing they want is another stimulus measure that would pump more money into voters\u2019 pockets. Last thing. But now Trump has done it with the executive orders. What are you gonna do, take it away from people now, or do they try to get in on it with some credit?<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, looky here. The press does not believe that Chuck and Nancy have expressed a desire to talk to Trump. You know, Trump tweeted that now that he has issued the executive orders extending the coronavirus benefits, that Chuck and Nancy now want to talk to him, and so at the White House press briefing mere moments ago, the press was berating Kayleigh McEnany, demanding to know, “Who did Trump hear from?<\/p>\n “Who says Chuck and Nancy want to talk?” The press doesn\u2019t believe the Democrats really want to talk. The press believes that Democrats want the chaos. The press believes they don\u2019t want talks, that Chuck and Nancy would not be this… They wouldn\u2019t do this. So they\u2019re demanding to know, and Kayleigh McEnany… Well, we have the answer here.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Now, again to set this up. Trump signs four executive orders — and let me review them again just so you can remember what they were. The first one continues additional federal unemployment benefits at $400 a week instead of $600. It\u2019s $200 less than the Democrats were demanding. The states will pay $100 of it.<\/p>\n The second of four executive orders creates a payroll tax holiday for Americans earning less than a hundred thousand dollars a year. The third executive order extends the eviction moratorium on federal subsidized housing. And the fourth executive order suspends student loan payments. This is through the end of the year and retroactive I think back to July 1st.<\/p>\n This is not good enough for the Democrats. They want the chaos. They want you evicted. They want your business shut down. They do not want you to get a holiday on your student loan payment when you don\u2019t have a job. They do not want unemployment compensation continued.<\/p>\n Folks, that\u2019s why they didn\u2019t come to a deal last week. They want the mess. These are the people that care. These are the people that care about the little guy. These are the people claiming to have all the compassion and these mean Republicans, heartless, cold, and cruel don\u2019t care about people. It\u2019s the exact opposite here.<\/p>\n So, anyway, after these four executive orders were signed and they are legal, they were signed under terms of the Stafford Act, which allows FEMA money to be used for national emergencies. Natural disaster. Which is what this is. I mean, you\u2019ve got a mandated destruction of the economy. We have a natural disaster here. The Stafford Act allows FEMA funds, FEMA money to be used to transferred to this kind of resolution to a natural disaster.<\/p>\n The problem is that the media, the Drive-Bys will never report that it\u2019s the Democrats holding the country hostage. But, you know, it\u2019s one of these things where we hope people will figure it out. ‘Cause Mnuchin is right. It\u2019s the Democrats that are gonna be holding things up.<\/p>\n Anyway, what\u2019s happened is that now that the four executive orders have been signed and that they are legal and now the benefits will continue, if the Democrats go to court to try to stop it, they\u2019re going to be seen as taking benefits away. They know that Trump can make that case. So they\u2019re a little unnerved by this. And then Trump tweeted that the Democrats, that Chuck and Nancy now all of a sudden called him and want to reopen talks. They want to get involved.<\/p>\n So the media assembled for the daily brief today at the White House doesn\u2019t believe that. They don\u2019t believe Trump\u2019s tweet. They don\u2019t believe that Chuck and Nancy called Trump, and they want to know who the president heard from. Reporter said — this is sound bite number 21, by the way — “Who\u2019d the president hear from over the weekend? Also, his tweet this morning said that Schumer and Pelosi had his number regarding negotiations. Does that mean that he\u2019s gonna play a larger role in the process going forward, or is it going to still be Secretary Mnuchin and the chief of staff?”<\/p>\n MCENANY: They speak on the president\u2019s behalf. He\u2019s been actively engaged in the negotiations and working closely with Secretary Mnuchin and the chief of staff. Democrats should come to the table. Their immediate statement in the aftermath of the president issuing these EOs says that they would like to meet halfway. But, you know, those are empty words from Democrats. They\u2019d like to meet halfway because so far they\u2019ve just gone in the other direction.<\/p>\n REPORTER: Did anyone reach out to him?<\/p>\n MCENANY: I\u2019m not going to go through the president\u2019s call logs. You guys can ask him later today if you\u2019d like. He\u2019ll have a press briefing about 5:30.<\/p>\n RUSH: Oh, so the president has a briefer today at 5:30. She\u2019s not going to go through the president\u2019s call logs, but you can ask him later today who called him. You can ask him later today who called him on behalf of Chuck and Nancy. That ought to be good. Notice how the Drive-Bys are bent out of shape. They know that in Chuck and Nancy called, it\u2019s a sign of defensiveness, maybe even weakness. And they can\u2019t believe it so they\u2019re demanding proof.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/TRUMPEOAPP-1.jpg\")
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I think there is a great likelihood that that\u2019s true, but now that Trump has come along and used the Stafford Act to extend coronavirus benefits legally, now if the Democrats do anything to try to stop Trump, they are going to be seen as taking away these benefits and torpedoing the U.S. economy, which they want to do, but will they?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/APP-Trump-Crowd.jpg\")
If Trump is losing, if Biden\u2019s so far ahead, then why does all this matter? Why not go ahead and give the extension to coronavirus benefits and take the credit for it, if you\u2019re Pelosi and Schumer. If Trump is going to lose, why create this chaos? If Trump is gonna lose, why do even more damage to the country?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/APP-031820-COVID-Trump-Mnuchin.jpg\")
Now, Steve Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary is defending Trump\u2019s executive orders. He said yesterday, if the Democrats want to challenge us in court and if they want to hold up unemployment benefits to hardworking Americans that are out of a job because of COVID, then they\u2019re gonna have a lot of explaining to do.<\/p>\n
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So the Democrats my entire life, except for the last maybe 10 years, but my entire life claimed every election, local or national, that the Republicans wanted to kill Social Security. They wanted to take Social Security away from the seasoned citizens, and they wanted to kick the elderly out of their homes. It was a staple of the Democrat campaign, that Republicans want to take away your Social Security. It eventually died out because it never happened. And after a while, seasoned citizens began to realize that nobody ever took their Social Security away.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WashingtonDC-Stroms-B.jpg\")
The employer actually pays you a hundred thousand when in effect it\u2019s costing him 125. You\u2019d probably choose the latter \u2019cause you\u2019d rather not have the hassle of going out and finding your own health care package and your own Social Security because it\u2019s a big hassle and you might not think you could get as good a deal. So everybody goes along with this. But you\u2019re paying it all, is the only point. The employer is not matching anything. You\u2019re paying every dime it costs the employer to hire you. You just are never seeing a significant percentage of it.<\/p>\n