Presented by Facebook. Good Tuesday morning, I'm Adrienne Hurst and welcome to your playbook

daily briefing. Now that nearly $2 trillion in COVID relief is out the door, Washington is turning

its attention to the next big thing, $3 trillion on infrastructure and jobs. That's right,

Infrastructure Week, or make that weeks, is coming for real. And what the

White House is planning covers not just building stuff like roads and bridges, but all of the

structural economic changes that Biden campaigned on. As Annie Carney and Jim Tangerasley put it in

the Times today, it's more than just concrete and steel. That's playbook co-author

Ryan Liza. Ryan, what do we need to know about this big infrastructure package? So let's start

at 30,000 feet and work down to the granular level. So first, the big ideas. There are several

strains of progressive thought that animate the Biden jobs agenda.

First, inequality.

There wasn't a consensus early in the last Democratic administration about tackling income

inequality as a top priority.

Now there is.

Though it's not a word Biden likes to use, his big economic policies, cash payments to lift

families out of poverty, steeper taxes on corporations

and the wealthy, a boost to the federal minimum wage, are all highly redistributive.

While some populist conservatives have started to compete with Democrats on these policies,

this remains one of the widest intellectual gulfs between the parties.

Mitch McConnell started attacking the Biden infrastructure

agenda for its revenue raisers before the COVID bill was even signed. Two, racial equity.

The era of Democrats talking about a rising tide lifting all boats is largely over. Biden's plans

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