A PRESIDENT WHO SHAPED HIS FIRST THREE YEARS...

[Michael Grove]

... in office trying to sell Americans on obscure corporate tax provisions, minute details of tariffs and the rollback of mind-numbing regulations has a new approach...

KEEP [IT] SIMPLE. 

Facing the most sudden economic crisis to hit any modern American leader, President Donald Trump is now pushing to send Americans four-figure checks, establish broad corporate bailout programs and lend billions of dollars to small businesses so they can keep paying their bills.

The crisis approach jettisons long-held Republican philosophies about using the tax code — and the tax code alone — to reward businesses and individuals for certain types of economic behavior.

It’s a sharp reversal for a GOP that just weeks ago was railing against socialism. The new raft of proposals adopts philosophies popularized by a field of Democratic presidential candidates, like showering the public with government money and imposing strict conditions on corporate welfare.