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The Playbook Podcast

March 18, 2021: What Ron Klain told progressives behind closed doors

The Playbook Podcast

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🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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We have an exclusive look at what Biden's chief of staff told powerful progressives about where the administration’s headed — on immigration, taxing the rich, the minimum wage and more.

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0:00.0

Presented by Amazon. Good Thursday morning. I'm Adrienne Hurst and welcome to your Playbook Daily briefing.

0:07.9

Joe Biden's promised to make a ton of progressive priorities happen during his presidency.

0:12.7

But what's his chief of staff saying behind closed doors?

0:16.1

We have an exclusive look this morning at what Ron Claylaim told powerful progressives yesterday about where the

0:21.5

administration's headed on immigration, taxing the rich, the minimum wage, and more. Here's playbook co-author

0:27.9

Rachel Bade with the scoop. Leaders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus met with White House Chief

0:32.2

of Staff Ron Claim at the White House on Wednesday morning. I caught up with Pramilla Jayaupal,

0:37.0

who leads the CPC, and here's what she told me.

0:39.9

Number one, on infrastructure.

0:42.3

Progressives pressed for a commitment that Joe Biden's jobs plan will address not only

0:46.2

transportation, but things like climate, health care, and so-called family infrastructure,

0:50.8

things like child care, and paid leave.

0:53.4

Jayapal laid out to the White House her concerns that if they work with Republicans, they

0:57.3

won't get all these things.

0:58.7

She told me, quote, we can either go green or we can go bipartisan because I just don't

1:02.9

think Republicans are ready to have a transformative package.

1:06.3

Clayne did not say what the plan was, per se, but he did indicate to CPC leaders that the White House

1:11.6

is exploring different options, including the possibility of actually breaking up the build-back

1:16.4

better plan into as many as three different bills. Some could go on a bipartisan basis. Some could

1:22.2

go through reconciliation and be Democratic bills only. In theory, at least a handful of Republicans

1:27.4

might pass a more narrow

1:28.7

bill that focuses specifically on roads and bridges, but not on things like climate. But there's

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