That announcement reportedly being the fact that Trump plans not to allow his administration to comply with orders that were literally in the bill to begin with. According to the Coronavirus Relief Bill, an inspector general position within the Treasury Department has been established to oversee just how and when slush funds to big businesses are doled out.
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President Trump at a briefing on the coronavirus pandemic at the White House on March 26, 2020. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
But now according to Trump (see here), that position might run into significant problems considering the administration reportedly has no plans to comply with official records requests and will deny anything of the sorts.
“I do not understand, and my Administration will not treat, this provision as permitting the SIGPR to issue reports to the Congress without the presidential supervision required by the Take Care Clause,” part of Article II Section 3 of the Constitution that states a sitting president “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” [Vox]
In a sudden plot-twist move, Trump has signalled that he effectively will kill. any attempt for such reports to land at Congress’s doorstep without his direct approval. This kind of goes without saying that such actually defeats the entire purpose of the clause of the relief bill, considering nobody actually wanted to bailout billion-dollar businesses to begin with.
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