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The Playbook Podcast

April 26, 2021: Democrats at war over Biden’s next mega-proposal

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

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🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

With President Joe Biden set to unveil his trillion-dollar-plus “American Families Plan” before a joint session of Congress Wednesday night, he’s under intense pressure from Democratic constituencies who want their priorities included — and even better, highlighted in the speech. Olivia Reingold is an editor-producer for POLITICO Audio. Jenny Ament is the senior producer for POLITICO Audio. Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0

Presented by American Edge Project.

0:04.6

It's Monday morning. I'm Olivia Reingold, and this is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

0:11.5

It's a fight as old as Joe Biden's presidency.

0:15.5

It's time to play. Family feud!

0:20.0

It's Democrat versus Democrat, liberal versus more liberal, and team little by little versus

0:26.9

team big structural change.

0:30.5

This morning, the contours of a new matchup within the Democratic Party are forming.

0:46.1

This time over part two of Biden's Build Back Better Plan, another trillion-dollar spending proposal he's calling the American Families Plan.

0:52.0

It'll center on child care, paid family leave, and new tax credits.

0:55.9

The specifics are expected to come out this Wednesday when Biden addresses a joint session of Congress. And in the run-up, Democratic factions are pressing

1:02.1

the White House to get their priorities included in the details, and more importantly, in his speech.

1:09.1

Democrats are channeling that couple you know who seems to only

1:12.5

have one fight, but they have it over and over again, by taking sides on the same thing they

1:17.8

always disagree over. Health care. The White House has two big questions it needs to work through.

1:24.6

One, should it include a longtime Democratic promise to allow the government to

1:29.3

negotiate prescription drug prices, which some estimates say would save the country nearly half a trillion

1:35.6

dollars over the next decade? And two, what would the federal government even do with those

1:41.5

savings if it did decide to roll up its sleeves with Big Pharma?

1:45.6

It's not unlike a question I ask myself a lot. Should I make better financial decisions? And if I did,

1:51.8

what would I even do with all that extra money? Some Democrats know exactly what they'd spend that

1:58.1

extra cash on, Medicare. That camp is led by Representative Pramilla Giappol, and you guessed it, Mr. Medicare himself, Senator Bernie Sanders.

2:07.6

But it has some overlap with a group of over 20 House Democrats who are sending a letter today to Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris,

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