August 5, 2020
The Playbook Podcast
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🗓️ 5 August 2020
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| 0:00.0 | Today's Playbook Audio Briefing is presented by Facebook. |
| 0:05.5 | Good Wednesday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing. |
| 0:09.7 | And I'm Anna Palmer. Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin, who initially predicted a COVID deal would pass two weeks ago, told us Tuesday evening that if there was a deal to be had on COVID relief, it would have to be reached |
| 0:21.6 | by Friday. |
| 0:23.0 | We're not going to pass judgment here, whether that's possible, but we're going to lay out |
| 0:27.8 | where the two sides have made concessions, what's left to be figured out in the next 72 hours |
| 0:32.7 | and what both sides said in the closed-door meeting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office Tuesday. |
| 0:38.8 | Along with John Bresnahan, we worked sources last night to figure out exactly what went on |
| 0:43.2 | in that closed room with Mnuchin, Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and White House |
| 0:49.0 | Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, as they try to cobble together a $1 trillion plus package. |
| 0:55.0 | Here are the concessions made by the Republican negotiating team. |
| 0:58.0 | Enhanced unemployment $400 a week up to December 15th. |
| 1:01.6 | Eviction moratorium extended through December 15th, state and local funding $200 billion, |
| 1:06.5 | although Dems say they only offered $150 billion. |
| 1:09.3 | Democrats lowered their U.S.PS ask from $25 billion to $10 billion, subject to a meeting |
| 1:14.5 | with the Postmaster General today. |
| 1:16.4 | But there are a ton of outstanding issues where the two parties are pretty far apart. |
| 1:21.9 | Here's what the two sides discussed with details from Pelosi Suite. |
| 1:26.8 | U.I. |
| 1:34.3 | The Republicans hold this offer $400 per week until December 15th, is a big move on their behalf. Democrats are holding at 600 per week and are trying to capitalize on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell suggesting that Republicans may agree to a 600 per week UI plan. |
| 1:45.3 | Republicans also want to include the return to work credit. |
| 1:48.1 | They tabled this conversation, noting they were too far apart. |
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