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Hey, good morning, Playbookers, and Rugu Minnavalon. It's Wednesday. Today's show how

immigration politics broke up a bipartisan bromance. It's your Politico Playbook Daily briefing.

Senator Mitt Romney is having a bipartisan moment.

He kept everyone in suspense until Monday on how he would vote on Katanji Brown Jackson's confirmation.

He voted against confirming her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit last year,

but flipped and will now vote to confirm her to the Supreme Court.

Six weeks ago, House Democrats blew up a bipartisan deal on COVID funding when they stripped

$15 billion in pandemic relief money from a bill to fund the government.

Biden and Democrats scrambled to find a way to pass a standalone bill, and they needed a

GOP partner. Romney stepped in and spent the last month and a half negotiating with Majority Leader

Chuck Schumer and the White House.

They announced a $10 billion deal on Monday, but yesterday it fell apart.

There's often a moment in an election year when bipartisan compromises, which already are never easy in the best of circumstances,

become almost impossible. The Schumer-Romney deal was torpedoed by immigration policy.

There's a good reason Biden wanted his COVID request tucked into a $1.5 trillion spending bill.

As a standalone request, it could easily become the target of election year mischief.

As the Schumer Romney talks neared completion, the Biden administration handed Republicans a weapon.

On Friday, the CDC announced the end of Title 42.

That's the authority used by Donald Trump at the start of the pandemic to shut down the asylum system.

Hundreds of thousands of migrants who would normally be allowed to seek asylum under U.S. law were simply expelled instead.

In the Trump years, when the president

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