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Good Tuesday morning, I'm Jake Sherman, and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing.

And I'm Anna Palmer. There are no conversations right now about another round of COVID relief.

None. The White House is silent. The Hill is quiet. And that means no new programs,

no new money for Americans before the holiday season,

but equally notably, a number of crucial provisions are set to expire at the end of this year,

which is in 44 days. The pandemic emergency unemployment compensation, which gives 13 weeks of

extra UI to those who have run out of options. The pandemic unemployment assistance

used by gig workers runs out. The eviction moratorium ends. State and local funding will stop

flowing. The 2020 rebate checks will end, as does, student loans forbearance. Small business

debt relief ends. Charitable deduction limits expire. The exclusion of employer payments of student loans

stops. The refundable tax credit for required paid sick leave runs out. The credit for family and

sick leave for self-employed individuals ends. The payment delay for employer payroll taxes,

changes on net operating losses. This is on top of 33 tax provisions that end

at the end of the year. In other words, a huge safety net for Americans is going to be yanked away at

the end of 2020, and Congress isn't preparing much of anything to keep people from plummeting.

One thing we've heard a lot about Joe Biden is that he knows Congress better than anyone

and is uniquely qualified to work the broken

system that is Washington legislating. But consider this. Dozens of members in the Senate never

worked with Biden in the Senate or during his two terms as VP and more than 150 members in the House

have been elected since the Obama presidency. Biden's decision to hire Cedric Richmond as a White

House advisor gives the 46th president a key link to Congress and the new brand of Capitol Hill politics that has developed in his four years out of office.

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