In this week’s Working Lunch, Joe Kefauver and Franklin Coley of Align Public Strategies talk about the American Growth Partnership, a new MAGA-focused trade association that is taking shape amid a chaotic on-again/off-again tariff landscape. The new group is forming at a time when the Business Roundtable and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have encountered some significant friction with the Trump White House. Is this a threat or an opportunity?
In addition, a bipartisan working group in Congress has introduced legislation that would dramatically alter the playing field for paid leave. The two discuss whether traditional, government-run paid leave programs funded by payroll taxes are a relic of the past.
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