How big business is making its relationship with Republicans great again

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🗓️ 2 January 2025

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To ring in the New Year, here’s a recent episode from one of our sister podcasts in the U.S., Playbook Deep Dive, hosted by Rachel Bade and produced by Alex Keeney. Power Play with Anne McElvoy will return next week. Donald Trump’s Washington will be packed with big business heavyweights such as Elon Musk, Scott Bessent and Howard Lutnick. Meanwhile, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which represents traditional business interests in D.C., has recently found itself estranged from its longtime allies in the Republican Party. On this episode of Playbook Deep Dive, the Chamber’s top lobbyist, former Rep. Rodney Davis, joins Rachael Bade to discuss how the Chamber is getting its swagger back with the GOP, and how they plan to interface with President-elect Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happy New Year and welcome back to Power Play Politico's weekly podcast, where we talk to some of the most influential people on either side of the Atlantic in what looks like a momentous political year ahead.
0:19.2	I'm Anne McElvoy. If you haven't already, please take a moment
0:22.4	to follow this podcast. It's a good habit to start 2025 with. And this week we're going to bring
0:28.5	you an episode from one of our sister podcasts in the US, Playbook Deep Dive, hosted by my colleague
0:34.8	Rachel Bade and produced by Alex Keeney.
0:38.2	Rachel looks at how the heavyweights of American business
0:40.7	are now lining up to work with a new Republican Congress
0:44.0	and a Trump administration in the White House back again.
0:48.7	We'll be back next week for another episode of PowerPlay.
0:56.7	The Chamber left the party a long time ago.
0:59.5	In the last election, the Chamber supported Democrats.
1:05.2	Donald Trump's Washington is going to be packed with heavyweights from the business community.
1:09.6	You've got Elon Musk and Scott Besant.
1:11.8	There's Howard Lutnik and Doug Bergam.
1:13.9	They all have the inside track.
1:16.5	Then there's the traditional powerful industries represented by another heavyweight,
1:20.7	the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
1:22.8	free enterprise's longtime voice in the nation's capital
1:25.6	that for much of its 100-plus year history
1:28.3	has been a reliable ally of the Republican Party. But it's no secret that in recent years,
1:33.8	the Chamber's partnership with the GOP has come to grief. I just assume they have as much
1:39.4	influence as the future as they do now, not. Part of that is political. The chamber pissed off Kevin McCarthy royally in 2020 when they endorsed 23 Democrats.
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