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Good Friday morning on Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing.

And I'm Jake Sherman. As we all know by now, the next several weeks will be filled with

wrangling over another round of COVID relief. Expect negotiations to start somewhat immediately.

We'll probably see Mark Meadows and

Stephen Mnuchin on Capitol Hill in the coming days. Mitch McConnell said he expects a bill out next week.

By Monday, details will start trickling to members. Leadership anticipates briefing Senate

Republicans on their bill Tuesday. That's when talks will start in earnest. The one firm line

has been drawn by McConnell. He says that under no

circumstance will a bill pass his chamber without an overhaul to liability laws. That policy

has some interesting bedfellows. Business and education are both, generally speaking, on board.

We got our hands in the draft summary for the liability piece. The White House has it,

and it's floating around

the Senate. Here are the two main planks. Number one, there will be protections for schools,

colleges, charities, local government entities and businesses that follow public health guidelines,

and for frontline health workers. Entities and frontline health workers are only liable for, quote, gross negligence or intentional

misconduct.

The second plank, protections from labor and employment laws for employers who follow public health

guidelines.

It would protect employers from liability for workplace testing.

Jake and John Bresdenham reported late Thursday that President Donald Trump is telling people

he will not sign a bill without the payroll tax cut.

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