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So, as I understand it, the two key disaster-relief provisions of the CARES Act — enhanced unemployment benefits and small-business loans — aren't likely to be operational for weeks, due to lack of administrative capacity, even though we've already lost 10 million jobs 1/
This cries out for a crash effort, led by experts, to clear up the bottlenecks — sort of like the effort that rescued healthcare.gov when Obamacare launched. But while I'd like to be proved wrong, hard to see Trump admin doing this 2/
After all, even if it did create such a task force, Trump would surely put Jared Kushner in charge 3/
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