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The Playbook Podcast

April 29, 2021: Biden gives Republicans what they’ve been waiting for

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

Daily News, Politics, Government, News

4.2614 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

President Joe Biden's first 100 days have been defined by a blitz of government expansion — some $6 trillion worth of actual and proposed spending. 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.

0:04.5

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

0:11.3

Thank you very much. Thank you.

0:13.7

Everyone but Gen Z will remember this 1996 moment from then-President Bill Clinton's State of the Union address.

0:22.1

The era of big government is over.

0:25.4

Switch the word over with the word back, and you get the speech President Joe Biden gave a joint

0:30.8

session of Congress last night, introducing his American Families Plan.

0:35.4

This is the largest jobs plan since World War II.

0:38.3

American Families Plan will provide access to quality affordable childcare.

0:44.3

American Jobs Plan creates jobs replacing 100% of the nation's lead pipes and service lines

0:53.3

so every America can drink clean water.

0:59.0

The American Family's plan, Biden's $1.8 trillion follow-up to his first infrastructure

1:05.0

proposal is a continuation of what's come to define his first 100 days in office, spending and lots of it.

1:13.4

His total tab, some $6 trillion worth of actual and proposed spending.

1:19.7

It's come in drips and drabs, $1.9 trillion for COVID relief, first unveiled in January,

1:26.5

another $2 trillion plus for infrastructure and climate in

1:29.5

March, and now nearly $2 trillion more for education, child care, and paid leave if it passes Congress.

1:37.3

Last night was quite a $1.80 for a president who's like to stay under wraps, trying not to call

1:42.8

attention to the massive changes he's made

1:45.2

or is proposing. But last night, those changes were front and center, a calculation the White

1:50.8

House could have made possibly because the pandemic and Trump's own big spending have made

1:56.3

bag up, big government great again. And the GOP so far hasn't been able to obstruct much of Biden's agenda,

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