EXECUTIVE ORDERS/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a few moments, I will sign a directive, instructing the Treasury Department to allow employers to defer payment of the employee portion of certain payroll taxes from September 1st…
If I’m victorious on November 3rd, I plan to forgive these taxes and make permanent cuts to the payroll tax. So I’m going to make them all permanent… In other words, I’ll extend it beyond the end of the year and terminate the tax.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 8, 2020