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Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook co-author Rachel Bade. It's Monday, August 12th.

In the days leading up to the R&C, Republicans were blitzing the airways discussing a possible 2025,

GOP agenda should they win a trifecta of Washington. You'll recall that Speaker

Mike Johnson, majority leaves Steve Scalise. They tasked their chairman to come up with ways the

party could use the fast-tracking budgeting tool known as reconciliation to avoid the filibuster

in the Senate to pass key priorities. They talked about extending Trump-era tax cuts,

even lowering the corporate rate

even further. They listed a number of Biden-era regulations that they wanted to roll back,

and they talked about passing their controversial border bill, finally, that they had been talking

about doing for years. Why do I bring this up right now on August 12th, weeks later? Well, we're a week now from the DNC, and it's becoming

abundantly clear that Democrats are far from settled on a plan on what exactly they intend to

prioritize should they pull off what, let's be honest, was kind of unthinkable just a month

ago, and that is unilateral control on all the levers of power next year. As of right now,

there is no 100-day plan if Kamala Harris wins the White House, Democrats flip the House,

and keep the Senate. There's no public comment on what exactly Democrats will try to pass.

If they go nuclear on the filibuster, there's no clear outline about what the party will do

with reconciliation.

On the one hand, the current lack of clarity is understandable.

I mean, only three weeks ago, most well-positioned Democrats were projecting that they'd lose the White House and probably both chambers of Congress to Republicans, given Joe Biden's problems after the debate.

Anybody who was talking about a 2025 Democratic agenda would probably

be laughed out of a room, let's be honest. But the ambiguity on policy right now for Democrats,

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