Hur påverkar Corona USA:s ekonomi och hur hanterar Trump detta politiskt?

Just over 97,000 children tested positive for coronavirus in the United States between July 16 and July 30, according to a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

President Trump’s bold move to bypass Congress by signing his own executive order and memorandums for coronavirus relief over the weekend drew plenty of strong reactions from both Democrats and Republicans.

His actions to defer payroll taxes and replace the expired supplemental $600 unemployment benefit with a plan that would pay up to $400, in particular, drew questions about their effectiveness, and whether the president has the right to overwrite the legislative branch of U.S. government.

Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is among the most vocal critics, calling payroll tax cuts “the hydroxychloroquine of economic policy” in both a CNN interview and on his official Twitter TWTR, 2.27% account on Sunday.

His dig harks back to the fervid belief by some during the pandemic, including the president, that the malaria drug would be a silver bullet against COVID-19. That has not proven to be the case.


Krugman said that payroll tax cuts are a “known bad idea” on CNN, adding, “Even Senate Republicans basically said, ‘Let’s forget about that. That’s a really stupid idea,’