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Hey, good morning, Playbookers. I'm Rugu Minovalin. It's Wednesday, and your two big stories of the day, what to expect for the rest of this week and what to expect in 2022.

This is your Politico Playbook Daily briefing.

It took a while, but Democrats have finally dealt with most of the tricky debt and spending issues that prevented them from fully focusing on the Biden legislative agenda.

The Senate passed a debt limit increase of $2.5 trillion yesterday afternoon, and the House followed suit just after midnight this morning.

Congress should be freed from

addressing the issue again until 2023. A final vote on the long-stalled NDAA is likely in the

Senate today. Congress has funded the government through mid-February. You don't get a big pat on the

back for doing the basics, but the three issues were all cleared with some degree bipartisanship,

and less briskmanship and drama than expected. The next big hurdle for Democrats? Well,

in some ways, it's the only hurdle for Democrats, Senator Joe Manchin. Up on Politico today,

Marianne Levine and Burgess Everett breakdown Manchin's role as the key to moving both

President Joe Biden's billed back better and voting rights legislation.

During Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's leadership meeting on Monday evening, Democratic senators hotly debated how to handle their two biggest unfinished tasks.

Some Democrats say they should kick both issues until next year. Others argue the party's leverage over Mention won't improve over time and want

action now.

Mansion is not yet committed to the $1.7 trillion climate and social safety net legislation,

nor does he support changing the Senate rules to push through an elections bill on a simple

majority.

He spoke with Biden Monday about the domestic spending bill and met with the

trio of Democrats Tuesday to discuss voting rights and the rules changes needed to pass it.

Signs that the West Virginia Democrat is still open to casting his critical vote for both

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