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Welcome to Talking Feds. A roundtable that brings together prominent former federal officials

and special guests for a dynamic discussion of the most important political and legal topics of

the day. I'm Harry Littman. We come to the end of a week that even more perhaps than we realize

will go down in the history books. On the 50th day of his presidency, President Biden signed into

law a $1.9 trillion omnibus COVID relief package passed over unanimous, yet fairly quiet Republican

opposition. And minutes later, address the nation for the first time as president, laying out

an aggressive plan for substantial return to normal life by July 4th. These developments alone

would call for major headlines, but they don't account for the historic shift in American governance

that the week ushered in. The relief package is of a piece with major new deal legislation that

fundamentally altered the reach and role of government as a progressive agent. One provision

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