House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Sunday blasted President Donald Trump’s executive orders on unemployment and a payroll tax as “absurdly unconstitutional.”
In an interview on CNN’s “State Of The Union,” Pelosi said “whether they’re legal or not takes time to figure out.”
“I associate my remarks with what [Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb.] says, ‘they're unconstitutional slop’,” she said. “Right now we want to address the needs of the American people. As my constitutional advisers tell me they're absurdly unconstitutional.”
Pelosi said Trump’s economic adviser Larry Kudlow’s analysis of the unemployment increase executive order proves its “weakness.”
“What the president’s adviser said shows the weakness in what the president proposed,” she said. “First, he said the states have money. They don’t.”
“Somethings’s wrong,” she declared. “Either the president doesn’t know what’s he talking about — clearly his aides don’t know what he’s talking about — or something's very wrong here about meeting the needs of the American people at this time.”
Pelosi said she wants a stimulus to address the “hunger needs” of children.
“I have a prayer that I say,” she said. “Let’s pray for those who are hungry, let’s pray harder for those who will not feed them.”
In a separate interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Pelosi took sharp aim at the payroll tax executive order.
"While he says he's going to do the payroll tax, what he's doing is undermining Social Security and Medicare, so these are illusions,” she said, noting the payroll tax helps funds those programs.
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