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Good Thursday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing.

And I'm Anna Palmer. We're kicking off this morning with a sneak peek. President Donald Trump is getting

new pressure from a quartet of conservative senators to pause the issuance of a set of popular visas

because of coronavirus-related job losses.

Senator Tom Cotton is leading a letter signed by Senators Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, and Chuck Grassley,

pressing Trump to suspend all new guest worker visas for 60 days and others for a year,

or until unemployment has returned to normal levels.

If fulfilled, this would represent a major pullback of immigration laws.

Specifically, the senators are asking Trump to suspend all new guest worker visas for 60 days,

to spend all new non-immigrant guest worker visas for 60 days,

and continue to spend new non-immigrant guest worker visas for 60 days, and continue to spend new non-immigrant

guest worker visas for a year or till unemployment bounces back to, quote, normal levels.

Among the visas they want to spend it are H2Bs, which allow non-agricultural seasonal workers into the U.S.,

H1Bs, which are for highly skilled applicants, and the optional practical training program,

which extends foreign student visas after graduation.

They are also requesting Trump's suspend EB-5 visas, a program by which an immigrant can

become a green card holder by investing in business in the U.S.

This letter will grab attention in the West Wing.

The president has shown willingness to use

the pandemic to curb immigration. Plus, he is always interested in pleasing the right flank

of his party. The post is up with a piece looking at how the president has ordered the border

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