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Business lobby raises concerns over Trump payroll tax break

by Associated Press
| August 12, 2020 3:03 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's leading business group on Wednesday raised serious concerns about President Donald Trump's move to defer Social Security payroll taxes for American workers, warning that the plan for a shot of economic relief during the coronavirus pandemic could prove unworkable.

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