Hi, this is Josh Marshall, and this is the Josh Marshall podcast.

We, you know, a lot is kind of not sure, preordained, but it's not like, you know, sort of we

saw it coming a bit in the distance, but a lot has happened over the last, I don't know,

72 hours or something like that.

In pretty rapid succession, the bipartisan mini bill passed, passed the Senate, obviously,

it still has to pass the House, it's still, you know, signature by the president would

be foregone conclusion as long as it has a reconciliation bill.

But what is key is that the one, the one part of this kind of global, you know, deal process

that the Democrats don't control, it isn't, you know, entirely within the Democratic Party's

control, or at least, you know, members of the Democratic Party is needing those Republican

senators to, you know, to vote the 10 votes for the Democrats who feel they need a bipartisan

deal.

So that's done.

That's done.

And it can't be undone.

They can't come back and say, oh, wait, the reconciliation bill is too big.

We're, we're un voting for the mini bill.

And that's what is, that's what's really pretty key here.

And in a lot of ways, it shows you how this is a, this is a pretty big accomplishment

for Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer.

Because if you remember, I don't even know how long ago it was now, was, I mean, a loose

track of time, was it two months ago, was it a month ago when the president had that,

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