| | | | | |  | | By Jake Sherman, Anna Palmer, Garrett Ross and Eli Okun | Presented by |  | | | THE OBAMA ERA has all but been erased. THIS MORNING'S NEWS that 14.7% of the American workforce is now unemployed erases the last drops of BARACK OBAMA'S economic legacy that seeped into the DONALD TRUMP presidency -- a steady decrease in the jobless rate from 10% in October 2009 to 3.5% in February of this year. INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCES have been broken down. Treaties and laws torn up. Social programs frayed. Norms erased. The Russia investigation has been partially rolled back. And now the once electric economy -- which bolstered OBAMA and gave TRUMP political currency -- has been short-circuited, and left for dark. IRONICALLY, one Obama legacy item still clinging to life is the one that Republicans despise most: Obamacare. But even that has been undermined, and court decisions could upend it further. THIS IS ONE OF THE POLITICAL REALITIES that TRUMP can take little credit for: The country is stuck at home, which has put at least 20.5 MILLION people out of work. But each American president is confronted with dynamics within and outside their control. GEORGE W. BUSH didn't ask for 9/11. OBAMA didn't ask for the financial collapse. And TRUMP didn't ask for the virus. LIKE ANY RELATIONSHIP, the proposition for voters is: Withstanding the pain, is TRUMP the right man for the job at this moment in time? -- REBECCA RAINEY: "The government data likely understates the damage, as the figures in the jobs report come from surveys conducted the second week in April." POLITICO W.H. PRESS SECRETARY KAYLEIGH MCENANY: "This president is the jobs president. … We had to put a stop to the economy. It was a pause. … We had to save 2.2 million lives -- perhaps more -- somewhere in that range. Because American lives -- that's what mattered most." TRUMP, on "Fox and Friends" on FBI Director CHRIS WRAY'S future: "The jury is still out." Andrew Desiderio on Hill GOP frustrations with Wray -- "[FORMER A.G.] JEFF [Sessions] was very weak and very sad." -- QUOTE DU JOUR: "I LEARNED A LOT from Richard Nixon: Don't fire people." BLOOMBERG'S @JenniferJJacobs: "NEWS: Pence flight to Iowa delayed an hour after a staffer tested positive for coronavirus, I'm told. Some aides disembarked AF2. Wheels up [at 10:48 a.m.] for Iowa." -- MCENANY CONFIRMED THIS in the press briefing shortly before 1 p.m. | | A message from Google: Google's free Teach from Home Hub offers tools and tips for distance learning. To help educators and families stay connected, Google has launched Teach from Home. Google.org has also established a $10 million Distance Learning Fund to support organizations that help remove barriers for students learning remotely. Learn more. | | | JARED UPDATE … WAPO: "White House pandemic supply project swathed in secrecy and exaggerations," by Amy Brittain, Isaac Stanley-Becker and Nick Miroff: "Almost six weeks after its launch, Project Airbridge has completed its 122nd flight, having cost taxpayers at least $91 million. But its impact on the pandemic is unclear and shrouded in secrecy: The White House, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the companies involved have declined to disclose where supplies have been delivered. "Administration officials, meanwhile, have pointed to the project as a signature initiative of their pandemic response. Broad and sweeping statistics about supplies procured through the project have been an almost daily fixture of White House press briefings. … "FEMA records, for example, show that Project Airbridge on average has delivered about 2.2 million surgical masks a day over the program's span. Yet Vice President Pence claimed in a news briefing in April that the program delivered 22 million masks daily. Overall, Project Airbridge flights have distributed just 768,000 N95 masks -- far fewer than the 85 million N95 masks procured through conventional federal relief efforts, according to the latest FEMA records." SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO will travel to ISRAEL on Wednesday, where he'll meet with BENJAMIN NETANYAHU and BENNY GANTZ. MORE SUNDAY SO FAR … | FOX | "Fox News Sunday": Thomas Inglesby. Panel: Jason Chaffetz, Charles Lane and Gillian Turner. | | Happy Friday afternoon. NEW: ANNA and JAKE will be hosting a virtual Playbook Interview with Democratic operative LIS SMITH on Monday at 9 a.m. We'll talk about what she's been up to since Pete Buttigieg dropped out, her advice for Joe Biden's campaign and the future of the Democratic Party. Register to watch FOLLOWING GOP SENATORS' REQUEST -- "Trump Administration Pushes to Extend Coronavirus Immigration Limits," by WSJ's Michelle Hackman and Andrew Restuccia: "The president's immigration advisers are drawing up plans for a coming executive order, expected this month, that would ban the issuance of some new temporary, work-based visas. The order is expected to focus on visa categories including H-1B, designed for highly skilled workers, and H-2B, for seasonal migrant workers, as well as student visas and the work authorization that accompanies them. "Though the scope of the order hasn't yet been decided, administration officials said it could range from suspensions of entire visa categories to the creation of incentives to hire Americans in industries hardest-hit by layoffs." WSJ -- FLASHBACK, PLAYBOOK, 5/7: "POLITICO Playbook: NEW: Trump's Hill allies float a fresh immigration crackdown" | | | | POLITICO Magazine Justice Reform: The Decarceration Issue, presented by Verizon: Over the past decade, the long-standing challenge of criminal-justice reform has emerged under the spotlight with a new twist: Both Republicans and Democrats are on board. But if both parties want to lower the incarceration rate, why are our jail and prison populations still so high? The latest series from POLITICO Magazine works to answer this important question and take a deeper look into what it will take to make progress in the policy and politics of justice reform. READ THE FULL ISSUE. | | | | | THE LONG ARM OF ANDREW YANG -- "Democratic senators propose $2,000 monthly payments to most Americans," by Burgess Everett: "On Friday, Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) will release their Monthly Economic Crisis Support Act. It would dramatically expand upon the $1,200 sent to Americans as part of March's gargantuan coronavirus response bill. "The legislation would send a monthly $2,000 check to people who make less than $120,000. It would expand to $4,000 to married couples who file taxes jointly and also provide $2,000 for each child up to three. … The payments would be retroactive to March and last until three months after the Health and Human Services Department has declared the public health emergency over." POLITICO … The bill GOOD POINT -- "Trump's Cabinet remains largely sidelined in coronavirus fight," by NBC's Heidi Przybyla: "Missing from roles in the official White House Coronavirus Task Force, many of Trump's Cabinet secretaries have remained less than fixated on rapid pandemic response. … [A] review of efforts of several Cabinet departments with tools and enforcement powers to address the pandemic found delayed and uneven assistance or support." NBC ACROSS THE BORDER -- "Hidden Toll: Mexico Ignores Wave of Coronavirus Deaths in Capital," by NYT's Azam Ahmed in Mexico City: "The Mexican government is not reporting hundreds, possibly thousands, of deaths from the coronavirus in Mexico City, dismissing anxious officials who have tallied more than three times as many fatalities in the capital than the government publicly acknowledges, according to officials and confidential data reviewed by The New York Times. "The tensions have come to a head in recent weeks, with Mexico City alerting the government to the deaths repeatedly, hoping it will come clean to the public about the true toll of the virus on the nation's biggest city and, by extension, the country at large. But that has not happened. … In some hospitals, patients lie on the floor, splayed on mattresses. Elderly people are propped up on metal chairs because there are not enough beds, while patients are turned away to search for space in less-prepared hospitals. Many die while searching, several doctors said." NYT TRADE WARS … AP/BEIJING: "U.S., China trade envoys promise 'favorable conditions'": "The call followed a threat by President Donald Trump to pull out of the agreement if Beijing fails to buy more American goods and services in exchange for Washington suspending planned tariff hikes. … "The chief Chinese envoy, Vice Premier Liu He, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin promised to 'create a favorable atmosphere and conditions' for implementing the 'phase one' agreement signed in January, Xinhua said. It said they "agreed to maintain communication and coordination" but gave no additional details." AP | | | | LET'S TAKE CARE OF ONE ANOTHER: Families in the DMV have been cursed by layoffs, dealing with school cancellations and worrying about heightened health risks. Our neighbors need us now more than ever. You can help. From grab-and-go dinners for kids to boxes of groceries for seniors, your support will help provide tens of millions of meals for people in the greater D.C. community who need it the most during these turbulent times. No one should go hungry during this pandemic. Together, we can make sure no one will. Please support the Capital Area Food Bank's Covid-19 response today. | | | | | BIG REUTERS INVESTIGATION -- "For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection: The U.S. high court's continual refinement of an obscure legal doctrine has made it harder to hold police accountable when accused of using excessive force," by Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Jackie Botts, Andrea Januta and Guillermo Gomez INSIDE BARR'S DOJ … JOSH GERSTEIN: "Barr reignites charge he is conducting Mueller cleanup for Trump": "For a moment, the furor around Attorney General William Barr had begun to die down. That ended Thursday. … The move [to abandon Michael Flynn's prosecution] rattled the department — four Stone prosecutors quit the case and one left government altogether — while the president cheered on Barr. "The situation deteriorated so quickly that Barr publicly urged Trump to stop commenting on DOJ cases, even issuing what sounded like a veiled threat to resign if he didn't. … [One longtime] official said Barr's move was another signal to career officials that their work could be readily upended for political reasons." POLITICO MAR-A-LAGO LATEST -- "Trump made Florida his official residence. He may have also made a legal mess," by WaPo's Manuel Roig-Franzia: "[T]he attempt by Trump and his legal team to squeeze through approval of his dock while the nation's attention is trained on the coronavirus pandemic is now surfacing a potentially nettlesome problem for the president. … "Digging into the catacombs of local records to build an argument against the dock, a small group of loosely aligned preservationists, disgruntled neighbors and attorneys have unearthed documents that they assert call into question the legality of Trump's much-publicized decision late last year to change his official domicile from Manhattan to Mar-a-Lago and to register to vote in Florida using the club's address." WaPo MEDIAWATCH -- Sandy Petrykowski has been named senior producer for PBS' "Washington Week." She previously was a producer. BONUS BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Ed Meagher, weekend programming manager at CNN. A fun fact about him: "I can ride a bicycle backwards. My kids are a little sick of me doing it at our Decatur, Ga., skatepark in front of their friends, though." Playbook Q&A | | | | A message from Google:   Teach from Home is a free hub of information, trainings, and tools to help teachers continue teaching during school closures. Learn more. | | | | | | | Follow us on Twitter | | | | Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook family Playbook | Playbook PM | California Playbook | Florida Playbook | Illinois Playbook | Massachusetts Playbook | New Jersey Playbook | New York Playbook | Brussels Playbook | London Playbook View all our politics and policy newsletters | | Follow us | | | | |
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