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The Playbook Podcast

Feb. 28, 2023: A skeptical SCOTUS eyes Biden’s student debt plan

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

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🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Polls open in less than an hour in Chicago, where Mayor Lori Lightfoot faces eight rivals — and a very real chance of being shut out of the likely April 4 runoff election. A new poll from Victory Research finds the incumbent trailing both former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas and Cook County commissioner Brandon Johnson. Plus in just a few hours, President Joe Biden's student debt relief plan will come under the scrutiny of the Supreme Court, whose justices will decide in the months following today’s oral arguments whether the $400 billion program is constitutional. A lot more than debt relief for 40 million Americans is on the line. A broad ruling by the conservative high court might not only put a stake through Biden’s signature promise to young voters; it could cripple his plans to take executive action in other areas and leave federal policymaking more vulnerable to hostile states’ legal challenges. And the House Select Committee on China holds its first hearing this evening against a backdrop of rising trans-Pacific tensions, heightened by last month’s spy balloon revelations and recent speculation that China might overtly assist Russia with its invasion of Ukraine. The committee, operating so far with bipartisan cooperation, is supposed to take a look at the range of economic, technological and military concerns posed by China over the next two years. Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter Raghu Manavalan is the host and senior editor of POLITICO's Playbook Daily Briefing.Jenny Ament is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0

Presented by Emerchant

0:02.0

Good morning Playbookers. I'm Roku Mono Moldavalin.

0:06.0

Chicago, China, and student debt.

0:10.0

Here are the big things we're tracking on Tuesday, February 28.

0:14.0

Polls open in less than an hour in Chicago, where Mayor Laurie Lightfoot faces eight rivals and a very real chance of being

0:23.4

shut out of the likely April 4th runoff election. A new poll from Victory Research finds

0:29.5

the incumbent trailing both former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Thalice and Cook County

0:36.2

Commissioner Brandon Johnson. Politicoes, Jonathan Martin,

0:40.1

reports this morning in today's playbook from the Windy City, where sky-high civic anxiety

0:45.9

over rising crime has put Lakefoot at risk of becoming the first mayor to lose re-election

0:52.3

in 40 years. Jonathan writes,

0:54.8

It's hardly just a Chicago story, but Latefoot's prickly style has compounded her woes.

1:00.6

When I asked Lightfoot if she had regrets, she didn't hesitate.

1:04.2

We made mistakes.

1:05.6

Yet, she was quick to say she learned from those errors,

1:08.8

and perhaps recognizing the voters she needs to mobilize,

1:12.7

said she was judged more harshly as a black woman. I remember Rom Emanuel, appearing on the cover

1:18.8

of Time magazine. That headline was basically like, Tough Guy for Chicago, she recalled.

1:24.9

No woman or woman of color is ever going to get that headline.

1:29.4

The House Select Committee on China holds its first hearing this evening against a backdrop

1:35.2

of rising trans-Pacific tensions, heightened by last month's spy balloon revelations and recent

1:42.2

speculation that China might overtly assist Russia with its

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