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The Playbook Podcast

Another big day for Biden’s presidency: What to watch

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

Government, Daily News, News, Politics

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

So much for that make-or-break Thursday vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. Speaker Nancy Pelosi delayed the roll call just before 11 p.m. after a flurry of late-night meetings trying to strike a deal with Sens. Krysten Sinema and Joe Manchin over the still-not-final reconciliation package, Build Back Better, at the heart of progressives’ reluctance to pass the BIF at this moment. Here are some takeaways from a crazy day on Capitol Hill... Take the POLITICO Podcast Listener Survey Raghu Manavalan is the host of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the senior producer for POLITICO Audio. Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0

Presented by Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.

0:04.5

Hey, good morning, Playbookers, I'm Rookmanevalin.

0:07.2

It's Friday.

0:07.9

No government shutdown.

0:08.9

No BIF.

0:09.7

No buildback better either.

0:11.6

This is your Politico Playbook daily briefing.

0:18.6

Speaker Nancy Pelosi delayed the roll call just before 11 p.m.

0:22.7

After a flurry of late-night meetings trying to strike a deal with Senators Kirsten Cinema and Joe Mansion over the still not final reconciliation package, known as built back better.

0:33.0

Here are some key takeaways from a crazy day on Capitol Hill.

0:37.0

One, Pelosi takes over.

0:39.2

After weeks of folks waiting for President Joe Biden to deliver mansion in cinema, the speaker

0:44.0

got in the driver's seat Thursday.

0:46.3

She spent the day working with White House aides to sketch out a build-back better framework

0:50.1

that would appeal to the two moderate senators while freeing House progressives to vote for the BIF.

0:55.8

It didn't materialize in a final form, but sources say they made progress.

1:00.6

Well, mentioned cinema hunkering down in the basement of the Capitol and pouring over the proposal late into the night.

1:07.7

Two, moderates come up short for now.

1:10.7

Centrists in the House swore up and down that the Speaker would keep her word and hold the BIF vote, regardless of the status of reconciliation.

1:18.0

But on Thursday night, we saw that perhaps Pelosi, confronting the reality within her caucus, wasn't as eager to decouple the two votes as moderates thought.

1:26.4

Three, distrust is running high.

1:29.4

A lot of Hill Democrats were stunned by the unusual written agreement that Senate

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