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April 5th, 2021.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, we're digging into the opposition to the American Jobs Plan.

Number two, what to expect this week on Capitol Hill.

And number three, more on the unfolding scandal surrounding Florida Republican Matt

Gates all right Jake let's get into the number one story of the day the opposition

to the American jobs plan it's kind of happening on two basic fronts one some

parts of the Democratic Party saying this isn't going far enough. And two,

this more kind of specific issue around the salt cap. So I don't know, I'll let you take it away from

there. Yeah, so Joe Biden has a $2.5 trillion infrastructure plan. And soon enough, Anna,

we're going to be talking about real money, $2.5 trillion

to rebuild roads, bridges, and do all sorts of things around the country. You and I have

typically been skeptical of bills of this size and bills of this magnitude, although we're not

as skeptical this time around because Congress seems to love to

spend money at the moment.

And so there are two different things here are happening.

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