It's Monday, August 10th. I'm Hila Hughes.

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On today's show, what's next for TikTok in the United States? Then some headlines.

But first the latest. Starting with coronavirus, the United States passed 5 million confirmed

COVID-19 cases over the weekend. This comes as schools grapple with reopening plans and Congress has

let emergency unemployment assistance and federal eviction protections expire. Now over a week past

deadline and with Republicans unwilling to come to an agreement with Democrats, President Trump

signed a bunch of executive orders and actions that he presented as a fix to the economic problems

that we're dealing with. But it wasn't really that. So let's go through these and what they actually do.

Let's do it. Alright, so outside of the possibility of legal challenges here in the future,

what is new on that front, there is a lot less substantively in the stuff that Trump signed than what

he said. So let's begin with unemployment. There had been all this back and forth over the $600

and weekly federal unemployment aid that Democrats wanted to extend. And on Saturday, Trump said his

administration is going to initiate a $400 weekly payment, which of course is better than nothing,

but less than the 600. But there are a few important catches here. For one thing, according to

the President's memo, $300 of that is coming from the federal government and the other 100 is coming

from states. Now, why does that matter in this case? One of the immediate questions was whether

financially struggling states would actually be able to do this. And for example, Ohio's Republican

governor Mike DeWine said he didn't know if his state could cover it at the moment. Trump is also

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