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Economics Team

Description

The Economics Team schedules conference calls with President Bartlet to review and advance the White House tax plan. C.J. cites this call in her press briefing to portray the President as focused on substantive domestic policy amid foreign crises like Kuhndu. Staff frame the team as a key internal advisory group that integrates economic analysis into the administration's proactive agenda, handling discussions on fiscal proposals before political rollout.

Event Involvements

Events with structured involvement data

3 events
S4E16 · The California 47th
Press Briefing: Framing Kuhndu and Containing California

The Economics Team is invoked as the President's scheduled conference-call partner; C.J. uses that fact to give the tax plan policy weight and to deflect partisan framing.

Active Representation

Through a scheduled presidential conference call and its role in shaping the tax message.

Power Dynamics

Advisory; supplies technical legitimacy to the President and helps inoculate the administration against partisan attacks.

Institutional Impact

Transforms a political proposal into a policy project with expert backing, affecting media framing and public reception.

Internal Dynamics

Work under time pressure to produce coherent messaging and numbers before public rollout.

Organizational Goals
Provide fiscal analysis and talking points for the tax plan. Coordinate messaging to ensure the tax plan appears substantive, not reactive.
Influence Mechanisms
Provision of technical expertise and forecasts Timing and framing of calls to support public messaging
S4E16 · The California 47th
Spin and Containment: Framing the Tax Rollout and the Donna Photo

The Economics Team is the domestic policy apparatus C.J. cites as the subject of the President's conference call; invoked to show domestic policy discipline and to deflect claims the tax plan is merely reactive politics.

Active Representation

Referenced as the group the President will confer with; represented indirectly through C.J.'s statement about the schedule.

Power Dynamics

Internal advisory body with policy expertise that informs Presidential decisions; subordinate to the President but influential in shaping messaging.

Institutional Impact

Anchors the White House's attempt to convert political action into defensible policy discourse.

Internal Dynamics

Under deadline pressure; likely coordinating rapidly to produce unified messaging.

Organizational Goals
Refine and advance the tax plan in a way that can be presented as substantive policy. Provide technical talking points to shield the administration from partisan framing.
Influence Mechanisms
Policy analysis and technical scoring. Direct access to the President and speechwriters for message crafting.
S4E16 · The California 47th
Press Spin: Donna–Perez Photo Damage Control

The Economics Team is the domestic policy body the President will conference call with; C.J. cites this to emphasize ongoing work on the tax plan and to reframe media attention toward policy substance rather than campaign optics.

Active Representation

As a background advisory group the President will consult via conference call (as stated by C.J.).

Power Dynamics

Advisory but influential — their analyses shape the President's domestic policy messaging and timing.

Institutional Impact

Their involvement demonstrates the administration's emphasis on policy credibility as a tool to undercut peripheral controversies.

Internal Dynamics

Under deadline pressure to produce scoring and guidance that will be used politically.

Organizational Goals
Prepare and defend the tax plan rollout under media and political scrutiny. Provide technical scoring and messaging guidance to the President and press office.
Influence Mechanisms
Economic forecasting and policy scoring. Framing the fiscal narrative that underpins political messaging.

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