Trump admin opposes extending enhanced unemployment benefit

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration opposes a Democratic proposal to extend a $600 per week federal unemployment benefit approved in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia said Tuesday.

The $600 payment, which is in addition to normal unemployment benefits, "was the right thing to do,'' Scalia said, but is no longer needed as the economy begins to recover.

The money, included in a government relief package enacted in late March, has helped millions of workers stay in their homes and pay bills even as the unemployment rate surged to its highest levels since World War II.

The payments are set to expire July 31, and Democrats have pushed a plan that would extend the enhanced benefit through January. The Democratic-led House approved the proposal last month, but it is considered unlikely to advance in the Republican-controlled Senate.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-admin-opposes-extending-enhanced-222942541.html

[OrlandoDem2]

1. But does he support a higher minimum wage?

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. Just wait until

The evictions start.

What are people who didn't get thier jobs back supposed to do Mitch you stingy asshole,eat cake?

[MoonlitKnight]

3. Already seeing depressed wages

Employers trying to take advantage of the situation.

[stopbush]

4. Assholes. Do they really believe 20-million Americans who lost their jobs

will be back to work by August?

We all see the R plan: cut benefits and label the still-unemployed as lazy freeloaders. Doesn’t matter that they’re out of work solely because tRump fucked up the initial response to COVID-19.

[MichMan]

5. Couldn't the blue states just increase the state unemployment by $600 ?

[Ace Rothstein]

6. I doubt any state has the coffers to pay that out long-term on their own.

[Hekate]

9. Do fill us in

[stonecutter357]

11. It can't !

[Hekate]

8. Is this a great country or what? Your choice: stay home & starve or go back to work & get sick...

My husband and I knew it would come to this. We're okay -- I'm retired and he's been working from home for years. It's all those millions of other people we worry about -- they have no recourse.

[Johnny2X2X]

10. They'll probably compromise.

It will probably get extended for another 8-10 weeks.