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States on hook for billions under Trump's unemployment plan

by Associated Press
| August 10, 2020 12:03 AM

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Whether President Donald Trump has the constitutional authority to extend federal unemployment benefits by executive order remains unclear. Equally up in the air is whether states, which are necessary partners in Trump's plan to bypass Congress, will sign on.

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