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Sam's SME Speech Draft

Sam strides around the Roosevelt Room table, pages snapping in his fist as he reads the SME speech draft aloud to aides, voice slicing through partisan haze to hammer tax cut fundamentals. Aides lean forward, Jane Gentry and Richard Will bursting in with CBO surplus intel; Sam grips tighter, rejecting caucus populism as unfit prose unfit for presidential thunder.

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S2E20 · The Fall's Gonna Kill You

Sam Refocuses SME Speech on Fundamentals Amid CBO Boost and Caucus Clash

Sam grips and paces with the SME speech draft, reading it aloud to aides in the Roosevelt Room to demonstrate and enforce a return to tax cut fundamentals; it serves as the narrative battleground where partisan debates are dismissed, and later implicitly contrasted against the rejected caucus insert, embodying Sam's control over presidential messaging.

Before: Draft in Sam's possession, being actively read and edited in Roosevelt Room

After: Remains with Sam post-interruption, primed for refinement based on CBO news

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S4E17 · Red Haven's On Fire

Elsie Calls Will a 'Hardass' — Plexiglass Breaks

Elsie brings this stack of tax-draft pages as the tangible reason for the meeting; Will reads aloud from it, uses it to steer critique, and intends to annotate it. The papers are the flashpoint around which the confrontation and workload anxiety revolve.

Before: In Elsie's possession, freshly collected from interns and bearing prior handwritten edits.

After: Taken by Will, set aside for his notes and further editing; the document remains the focal work-product to be revised.

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