By Phil Mattingly, CNN
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo won’t hesitate to make the hard ask. She wants to make that clear.
There may be, after all, nothing less than the fate of President Joe Biden’s sweeping $4 trillion economic agenda hanging in the balance in the weeks ahead.
But in an interview in her office a few blocks down the street from the White House, the former Rhode Island governor laid out a distinctly old-school — and bipartisan — relationship-building process that has made her what White House officials view as a key asset in the effort to lay the groundwork for the high-wire legislative process that lies ahead.