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Mike Allen
·Sep 27, 2021
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1 big thing: Biden's reengineer-America moment
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Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios
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If President Biden gets the wish list that faces epic House votes this week, you'll be more likely to: - Jump in your electric car ... to pick up your kid from free or subsidized daycare .... then work remotely using ubiquitous high-speed internet.
Here's how your life could change if Biden lands his big bets, Axios managing editors Margaret Talev and David Nather write: Transportation: More of us would be driving electric cars, and lower-income people would have better access to public transit. - High-speed trains, rather than flying, become the smart way to travel between some metros.
Electric vehicles: People who have been on the fence about purchasing a electric car could be persuaded to buy one for two reasons: - Bigger tax credits — up to $12,500 per vehicle — would be more widely available, making EVs more affordable.
- Range anxiety
— fear of being stranded with a dead battery — fades as the feds spend
$13.5 billion for EV infrastructure, including more public charging
stations.
Health care: Democrats are seeking to expand coverage for millions of Americans while reducing prescription drug prices. - Medicare would expand to cover dental, vision and hearing benefits — currently only available to seniors with private coverage.
Child care and education: Day care would be free for lower income families. For middle class households, subsidies could save the average family $14,800 per year, according to the White House, because families wouldn’t pay more than 7% of their income for care of children under 5. - Biden wants to provide two years of free preschool before kindergarten — and two free years of community college.
- Also in Biden's plan: 12 weeks of paid family leave to tend to a sick family member.
Cities: Mayors say the proposals represent a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make cities more livable, modern and socially equitable. - Goodies include expansions of broadband access that could enable people of all means to work and study from anywhere.
Reporting contributed by Axios' Ben Geman, Jennifer Kingson, Joann Muller, Hans Nichols and Caitlin Owens.
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2. COVID crimps growth
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Data: NABE. Chart: Kavya Beheraj/Axios Business economists have cut nearly a point off their GDP forecast since earlier this year, Axios' Dan Primack writes from a survey out today. - Why it matters:
The National Association for Business Economists outlook reflects
increased concerns over the pandemic's impact on the economy,
particularly due to the spread of Delta and other variants.
Sorry, pols:
Only a small percentage of panelists felt that federal action or
inaction on a large spending bill would have a significant impact on
short-term growth. - Most expect sharp inflation growth in 2021 and moderate inflation growth in 2022.
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3. China's crypto squeeze
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Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios
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A new move by China to ban cryptocurrency shows how
tough it will be for the technology to deliver on its backers' vision of
disruptive, decentralized change, Axios managing editor Scott Rosenberg
writes. - Why it matters: Control
of currency is a foundation of sovereignty. Governments don't plan on
losing that control, even as money inevitably turns digital.
- Keep reading.
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A message from Google
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Google is committing $10 billion to advance cybersecurity
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Widespread cyber attacks continue to threaten the private information of people, organizations, and governments around the world.
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4.  German rising star
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Olaf Scholz at party HQ in Berlin today. Photo: Christof Stache/AFP via Getty Images The center-left Social Democratic Party
(SDP) clinched a narrow victory in Germany's federal elections, just
four years after suffering its worst loss since World War II, Axios'
Zachary Basu writes from Berlin. - Why it matters:
It's a stunning political comeback for the SPD, paving the way for its
chancellor candidate, Olaf Scholz, to form a governing coalition and
lead Europe's largest economy into the post-Merkel era.
State of play: The SPD won 25.9% of the vote and Merkel's CDU bloc had 24.1%, according to preliminary results. - Scholz said
he hoped to form a coalition with the Greens and Free Democrats, adding
his party would "do everything we can to ensure we're done by
Christmas."
Keep reading.
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5. Big Sky quote of the day
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Heavy equipment props up a leaning Amtrak car near Joplin, Mont., yesterday. Photo: Ted S. Warren/AP Sarah Robbin, emergency
services coordinator in Liberty County, Mont., where passengers were
carried out of the crashed Amtrak Empire Builder after emergency crews
couldn't cut open cars with special tools (via AP): - "We are so fortunate to live where we do, where neighbors help neighbors."
The latest: 3 people were killed. 7 were hospitalized, with 2 in the ICU.
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6. Rundown properties fuel D.C. homicides
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Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios
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Angela Washington, a 41-year-old special police
officer, was the last line of defense for besieged residents of Oak Hill
Apartments in Southeast Washington, Cuneyt Dil writes for Axios D.C. (Sign up here.) The District’s spike in gun violence is being linked partly to rundown properties that have become magnets for criminal activity. - Before Angela Washington's death, residents at Oak Hill complained to their landlord about strangers in vacant units.
Zoom out: The officer's killing was the 19th homicide around Congress Heights in the past two years, according to police data. - Homicides are up 11% from 2020, which saw a 16-year high in killings.
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7.  Youngkin waffles on Jan. 6 certification
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Terry McAuliffe (left) and Glenn Youngkin debate in Grundy, Va., on Sept. 16. Photo: Steve Helber/AP In an interview with Axios' Sarah Mucha, Glenn
Youngkin — the Virginia Republican in a dogfight with Terry McAuliffe
in the Nov. 2 governor's election — wouldn’t say whether he would have
voted to certify the election on Jan. 6 if he had been a member of
Congress. - Youngkin believes Joe Biden beat Donald Trump legitimately, and said there's "no room for violence in America."
State of play: Cook Political Report on Friday moved the race to "tossup," citing a souring national environment for Dems.
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8. Pic du jour
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Photo: Lawrence Bryant/Reuters The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger, 78, Keith Richards, 77, and Ronnie Wood, 74, kick off a "No Filter" U.S. tour in St. Louis last night. - The Stones have been touring since 1964 — 57 years.
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9. Dem analytics startup raises $30 million
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Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios
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Civis Analytics, a startup that could be key to next fall's Democratic campaigns, has raised $30.7 million in new funding, Axios Pro Rata author Dan Primack has learned. - The Chicago-based startup was
founded by Dan Wagner, who led analytics for the Obama 2012
campaign.Biden 2020 used Civis to test audience messaging and to
determine where to deploy advertising.
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10.  1 play thing: Broadway's big surprise
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Cast in "Moulin Rouge! The Musical." Photo: Matthew Murphy/Boneau/Bryan-Brown via AP "Moulin Rouge! The Musical,"
a jukebox adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's hyperactive 2001 movie, won the
best new musical crown at the Tony Awards last night, AP's Mark Kennedy writes. - The show won 10 Tonys. The record is 12, for "The Producers" in 2001.
"The Inheritance" by Matthew Lopez, was named the best new play. - Lopez's two-part, seven-hour epic uses "Howards End" as a starting point for looking at gay life in the early 21st century.
- Lopez was the first Latin writer to win the category.
Night's big surprise: "Slave
Play," Jeremy O. Harris' bracing work that mixes race, sex, taboo
desires and class, earned a dozen nominations, making it the most
nominated play in Tony history. But it won nothing. - Harris tweeted: "Slave
Play has never won one of the major awards of any of the great voting
bodies but changed a culture and has inspired thousands of ppl who
didn’t care about theatre before."
- He announced this morning that the play will return to Broadway in November. (N.Y. Times)
Full list of winners.
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