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The Playbook Podcast

April 13, 2020

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

Politics, Government, Daily News, News

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Behind the Easter Sunday oil deal President Donald Trump helped broker, how much money could Congress have to spend before the coronavirus crisis is over and more in today's Audio Briefing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's Politico Playbook Audio Briefing is presented by Humana.

0:05.5

Good Monday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing.

0:09.5

And I'm Anna Palmer. Good news and positive developments have been difficult for the administration to come by these days.

0:15.0

But you're likely to hear a lot today about the oil deal President Donald Trump helped broker between Saudi Arabia and Russia.

0:22.3

It was a busy Easter Sunday in the White House for Trump.

0:25.5

He called staff back to the office and worked the phones with the energy secretary, speaking to Saudi King Salman and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

0:33.4

The administration thought the deal was dead until Sunday.

0:36.7

Morgan Stanley's COVID-19, a prescription to get the U.S. back to work, was making the rounds the last few days on Twitter.

0:42.6

This analysis is not the be-all-end-all, but it seems to be gaining traction with people following the disease.

0:47.6

The bank lays out that in May will have a peak of new cases nationally, followed by a million tests per day late in the month.

0:53.9

In June, seriology tests will be available, and the first million tests per day late in the month. In June,

0:54.6

seriology tests will be available, and the first wave of people will go back to work. By midsummer,

0:59.2

wave two goes back to work. In September, school will be back in session. By October, there might be

1:04.7

a vaccine for health care workers. And by March, 2021, nearly a year from now, the vaccine will be widely available.

1:12.6

If this is true, how much more money will Congress have to spend before this is all over?

1:16.9

3 trillion, 4 trillion, 6 trillion?

1:19.7

Politico has a story up looking inside the global race to prevent another depression.

1:25.0

And here's a low dough alert.

1:27.4

Small business lending money is slated to run dry

1:30.0

at the end of this week. You'll remember, Republicans wanted to pass a quarter trillion dollars in

1:35.3

small business lending authority by itself. Democrats have a host of other priorities, like hospital

1:40.9

money and state money, that they want to ride alongside it.

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