On Saturday, as New York City’s 192,000 out-of-work hospitality staffers were about to enter their second week without enhanced unemployment benefits, President Donald Trump issued a memorandum to partially restore those payouts. It’s unlikely, however, that any of the country’s 31 million people claiming jobless aid will see any of that money.

Critics are calling the president’s orders questionably legal and are casting doubt on the ability of states or employers to implement the measure.

Trump signed the action a