Trump insistent on payroll tax cut via executive action despite lack of interest from employers

Published September 21, 2020 10:29am ET



President Trump is insistent on pushing payroll tax cuts through executive action, according to a top adviser, even though employers have expressed little interest in the arrangement and it has allowed Joe Biden to attack him as undermining Social Security.

“He really wants to keep pushing the payroll tax cut,” said Stephen Moore, an outside economic adviser to Trump.

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