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It's axon tap with David Axelroth, Robert Gibbs, and Mike Murphy.

The yeas are 50.

The yeas are 49. The bill as amended is past.

Okay, welcome, hacks. We are here in the wake of the, I don't know, it might be the biggest

federal expenditure ever passed. President Biden's centerpiece of his COVID comeback plan,

the stimulus bill, as you just heard, passed on a partisan basis, not on common these days.

So what do we think? The politics of it. For this kind of tricky question, there's only

one person we could go to, our friend, the honorable former mayor of Chicago and all

around the super Democrat. Mr. Ram Saan, a manual. Ram, welcome to the axon tap.

I'm good. One thing I should say, you are, you're almost right. This is the largest

federal expenditure since last year when the Congress and the president passed it. I think

one that was 2.2 trillion dollars. But this one was meaningful. Ram, how many times did

you lecture us in the White House about putting wins on the board? This was a pretty big

win for Biden. This is win with every letter, W, I, and I just want to prove I can spell.

No, that's very good. That's the decisive intellect that the people of Chicago came to appreciate.

Yeah, this is a major, this is a major, major win. And when you start unpacking it, it's

Christmas and Hanukkah all together. Oh, I'm tired of them. Yeah, yeah. I mean, well,

this, Murphy, we'll say this. I mean, here's the basic question. When 10 months from now,

you get to the fourth of the road. There's a recruitment going on. If you think COVID

is running out of control, the fourth variant of COVID is out of control. The economy is

stagnating to collapsing. A no vote is going to look great. If you think COVID is under

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