Signing Statement 2020-005

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Text of the Signing Statement from the White House website

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Statement by the President        

ECONOMY & JOBS         --    Issued on: June 5, 2020

Today, I have signed into law H.R. 7010, the “Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020” (the “Act”).  The Act provides greater flexibility to restaurants, hotels, and other small businesses to use Federal Government loans under the Paycheck Protection Program to pay for payroll, employee benefits, and other expenses while weathering the coronavirus outbreak.  Because the Act is essential to protecting jobs as the Nation begins to reopen the economy, I have signed the Act into law without delay.  Nevertheless, given the uncertain constitutionality of the Act in light of an unprecedented proxy voting system used by the House of Representatives that permitted Members to cast votes on behalf of, and record the presence of, other Members who were not actually present, I urge the Congress to pass the Act anew through traditional in-person voting at the earliest available opportunity.  

 

DONALD J. TRUMP

THE WHITE HOUSE,

June 5, 2020.
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Sources for the Signing Statement

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  2. PDF from GPO
  3. HTML text at GPO

Text of the Affected Law

H.R. 7010, the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020, has been designated as public law number 116-142.

The text of H.R. 7010 from the Government Printing Office (GPO) is available as follows:

1.  PDF downloaded from the GPO
2.  PDF on the GPO website
3.  Plain text from the GPO
4.  Enrolled text from the GPO