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Good Wednesday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing.

And I'm Jake Sherman. If all goes as planned, by Thursday morning, the House will be voting

on the half-trillion-dollar coronavirus relief bill to just pass the Senate, writing it for a trip

to the White House for Donald Trump's signature. And at the same time, Republicans will begin unfurling a new political ad against the Democrats with whom they negotiated this package.

They wasted time and cost Americans' jobs.

Republicans are planning to blame Democrats for sky-high jobless numbers after they spent two weeks pushing to broaden the package to include funding for

priorities like hospitals and coronavirus testing. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

tried to refill the Paycheck Protection Program with $251 billion without a host of other

priorities a few weeks ago. We saw the beginning of this strategy on Tuesday when House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy

told Lou Dobbs and Fox Business that the new jobless claims data this week will be, quote,

Nancy Pelosi's unemployment list.

Republicans claim is a stretch, as are many political critiques, but the broadside is instructive

in understanding the

outlines of the Republicans' political strategy six months before what could be one of the

strangest elections of our lifetime. Just after they negotiated this deal with Democrats,

Republicans plan on smacking them across the face with it, breaking the tacit agreement that

negotiated policy accord should not become political wedges.

Democrats, of course, say that they were able to turn a simple $251 billion business lending package

into a robust $500 billion bill that gave much-needed money to hospitals, testing, and other priorities.

And they say that the deal was on the table weeks ago.

So it was really Republicans who delayed it. One important thing to note, McConnell said several important

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