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Good Thursday morning. I'm Adrienne Hurst and welcome to your Playbook Daily briefing, where coffee is definitely infrastructure.

We've got the latest on Republicans' counteroffer to Biden's infrastructure jobs plan, SCOTUS Reform Action, and more.

But first, it's one of the unspoken dynamics on Capitol Hill.

Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have a chilly relationship. They always have. We have an excerpt this morning in Politico Mag of a new book by USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page. She dives into just how tense things got between the speaker and the squad back in the summer of 2019.

At one point Pelosi pressed on how she really feels about the quartet of newly elected progressives

appeared to mock them in a baby voice and take a swipe at their social media savvy.

She referenced former approach chair Dave Obie saying,

some people come here as Dave Obie would have said, to pose for

holy pictures. Then she raised her voice like she was mimicking a child and added, see how perfect I am and how

pure? She continued, okay, there's the group that's going to pose for holy pictures. Now let's

legislate over here. Harsh, Nancy. Pelosi and AOC are some of the most influential dims in the

entire party, but they're more rivals than allies. At the time, page sat down with Pelosi for this

book, the speaker and AOC had been locking horns over a series of comments Pelosi made,

belittling AOC's power. AOC made headlines at the time by saying Pelosi's words were disrespectful

and hurtful. Her chief of staff also stuck up for his boss, mocking Pelosi for claiming to be a

legislative mastermind when voters, he said, couldn't name a single kitchen table issue she'd passed.

That, as well as staffers' attacks on moderate members, was too much for Pelosi, who delivered what Page deemed a not-so-veiled threat.

She said, they'll understand when they have something they want to pass.

If you have something that you want to pass, you're better off not having your chief of staff send out a tweet in the manner in which that was sent out.

Totally inappropriate.

Notably, that chief of staff

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