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The Playbook Podcast

December 21, 2020

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

Politics, Government, Daily News, News

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

The big Covid relief/government funding vote, new guidelines on who gets the vaccine and more in today’s Audio Briefing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Stay tuned for a message from Facebook after the show.

0:05.4

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

0:09.3

And I'm Jake Sherman. The coronavirus relief and government funding bill will come to a vote today.

0:13.5

The House is likely to take it up in the morning. The Rules Committee plans to meet at eight as long as the bill is posted by seven.

0:18.8

This could be outdated by the time you listen to it because

0:21.0

there is no text yet. We don't have text for this more than two trillion dollar package, which is

0:26.1

going to come to a vote today on Monday. The leadership is hoping for a late morning procedural vote

0:31.3

followed by a midday final passage in the House. In the House, the vote to pass the bill will be

0:35.8

split in two, one for funding DHS, DOD,

0:38.6

Commerce, Justice, Science, and Financial Service, and another for the rest of the government

0:42.8

spending in coronavirus relief. This would allow some Democrats to vote against the first

0:47.0

package while also voting for direct payments. The Senate can move as slow or as fast as its

0:52.7

members allow. They should be able to get consent to push this through quickly.

0:56.8

It will be their final major legislative act of the year.

1:00.2

The White House says President Donald Trump will sign it.

1:03.5

And here's the buzz in the Capitol.

1:04.6

Mitch McConnell made a point of saying that this package was eerily similar to the package that Democrats rejected months ago.

1:12.1

Less than $1 trillion.

1:13.4

It has no state and local money.

1:15.3

In response to that, Chuck Schumer's office blasted out a comparison that showed all the

1:20.0

myriad ways that final bipartisan proposal was different from McConnell's proposal.

1:24.8

Either way, after eight months, Congress is on the brink of sending another

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