Dec. 12, 2022: Reading the omnibus tea leaves, SBF heads to DC and more

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🗓️ 12 December 2022

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Senate Appropriations Chair Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) announced Sunday night that Democrats would not proceed as planned with a vote today on their own spending package, citing “sufficient progress in negotiations … over the weekend.” Government funding runs out Friday. Talks have stalled for weeks as the parties wrangle over funding levels, with Republicans thus far refusing to give Democrats the nondefense plus-ups they desire. Could the distant chime of jingle bells finally be having an effect? There’s no way an omnibus can be negotiated, drafted and passed in the next five days, so expect another stopgap to move this week. Beyond that? There’s already chatter about negotiations dragging right up to and even through the holiday season. We’ll see who blinks first. More from Roll Call Playbook editor Mike DeBonis and co-author Rachael Bade discuss the funding fight plus the week ahead, including Sam Bankman-Fried's visit to Congresss and President Joe Biden's planned signing ceremony for the Respect for Marriage Act on the South Lawn. Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter Raghu Manavalan is the Host and Senior Editor of POLITICO's Playbook Daily Briefing.Jenny Ament is the Executive Producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0	Presented by Amazon.
0:02.8	Hey there, I'm Playbook editor, Mike DeVonis.
0:05.1	Happy Monday.
0:06.0	To kick off the week, I'm joined by Playbook co-author, Rachel Bade for today's Playbook
0:09.8	Daily Briefing.
0:13.3	Today is one of those weeks on Capitol Hill that we just relish here at Playbook.
0:18.6	There's a shutdown deadline at the end of the week.
0:21.5	And Congress has to figure out how they're going to fund the government.
0:24.5	Rachel, can you just give us an update with what's going on?
0:27.6	Sure.
0:28.2	Also, speak for yourself about relishing.
0:30.5	I relish the holiday season and want to spend time with my family.
0:33.8	But if they continue to not have a funding deal, we could see Christmas spoiled this
0:39.3	year. So, woohoo. So late last night, we saw a statement from Senate Appropriations Chairman Patrick
0:46.3	Leahy about government funding. He basically said that Democrats are going to be scrapping this plan
0:52.0	they had originally outlined to introduce their own
0:55.5	Democratic spending proposals today on Monday. And what that was signaling was that these bipartisan
1:02.9	talks, because you obviously need 10 senators in the upper chamber to go around the filibuster
1:09.7	and get spending past and avert any sort of shut down.
1:14.1	Basically, they've decided they're not going to introduce these bills.
1:17.0	So what that tells us is that there has been progress of some sort between Republicans
1:21.9	and Democrats to try to come up with an agreement.
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