Presented by Facebook.

Hello and happy Friday. I'm Adrienne Hurst with your Playbook Daily briefing.

Which is a hotter ticket, Beyonce's first post-pandemic concert or Biden's first address to Congress?

The answer should obviously be Beyonce, but maybe not to the nerds on Capitol Hill,

where Democrats are already playing furious musical chairs

to score one of the precious few seats at Biden's joint address. The April 28th event will have

strict safety protocols in place, even as the Hill slowly returns to normal. That means likely

just 200 lawmakers, administration officials, and staff will be allowed inside the House chamber,

a way smaller crowd than the typical primetime presidential speech.

Party leaders have the unenviable task of divvying up the tickets, and they're already

getting requests from lawmakers.

We're told the situation is downright contentious.

One Democratic source told Playbook that some summon leadership didn't even want to have

this address because they knew this was going to happen. People will feel jilted if they don't get an

invite, and Pelosi can't afford that now because her majority is so narrow. Here's what else is

driving the day today. Refugee caps. Progressives started out with a nudge,

privately telling Biden officials they needed to make good on Joe's campaign pledge to lift Trump's

historically low cap on refugees. Now they're saying, no more Mr. Nice Guy. This morning, a group of

lawmakers are taking their demands public, urging Biden to move now to fix a system they call

unacceptably draconian and discriminatory. The group, led by Representative Ilhan Omar,

herself a one-time refugee, is sending a letter to the White House this morning. The letter

comes after CNN reported that the holdup on lifting the cap was over concerns that it

...