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A new MAGA-focused trade group brings both threat and opportunity

Working Lunch: In this week's political podcast, a new organization is taking shape with enhanced access to the Trump Administration. Will it jive with traditional business groups?

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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