The #FPUC stipend paid out $250 billion--roughly $18 billion per week. Moral hazards aside, that was spent in the regular #economy. Allowing the stipend to lapse would have contracted the economy.
That's the can #Trump kicked down the road.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-government-sent-workers-nearly-250-billion-in-600-a-week-jobless-aid-11597091188
#news
