#Pelosi calls Trump’s emergency COVID-19 executive orders ‘unconstitutional slop’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted the four executive orders signed by President Trump for financial relief because of the coronavirus pandemic as “unconstitutional slop.”

“No, in fact, what the president did is – I agreed what the Republican senator said – is unconstitutional slop,” Pelosi said during an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” referring to comments made Saturday by GOP Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska.

“While it has the illusion of saying we’re going to have a moratorium on evictions, it says I’m going to ask the folks in charge to study if that’s feasible. 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,” the California Democrat continued.

The executive orders, criticized as an attempt to bypass Congress, would extend the enhanced unemployment benefits that expired at the end of July, create a “payroll tax holiday” until the end of 2020, provide relief for student debt and continue the moratorium on evictions for homeowners with federally backed mortgages.

Trump said he took the executive actions to protect Americans after weeks of negotiation between the White House, Democrats and Republicans hit a wall.

“Democrats have refused these offers. What they really want is bailout money for Democrat governors and mayors that have been run very very badly for many years,” Trump said.

But Pelosi said she and the Democrats attempted to seek a compromise.

“What the president does doesn’t even accomplish anything he sets out to do in the categories he did, but we said to [Republicans], we’ll come down a trillion [dollars], you come up a trillion [dollars] and we’ll be able to have an agreement that meets the needs of the American people,” Pelosi said.

She said Americans ravaged by the coronavirus are in dire need of help.

“We have to reach an agreement, children are food insecure, families are at the risk of being evicted, the virus is moving like a freight train,” Pelosi said. “The kindest thing I could say he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, or something’s wrong there, something’s very, very wrong.”

Trump signed the executive orders Saturday evening at his New Jersey golf resort.