Presented by Google. Good Friday morning. I'm Adrienne Hurst and welcome to your Politico Playbook

audio briefing. Well, the Senate referee has officially made her call. It's a no-go on raising the minimum

wage through Biden's COVID bill. The move would go against the chamber's stiff budget reconciliation

rules according to the parliamentarian's ruling.

Now, this is a crushing blow for progressives, but they're not giving up. Let's walk through four

possible paths forward, from least likely to most likely. Option number one, fire the parliamentarian.

That's actually what Senate Republicans did in 2001 when they didn't get the reconciliation

rulings they liked. Who's in favor this time around? You can count Representative Ilhan Omar.

She tweeted her support for the move yesterday, saying, what's the Democratic majority

if we can't pass our priority bills? This is unacceptable. Who's opposed to the pink slip?

Basically everyone to the right of the squad.

Option number two is to overrule the parliamentarian. That's what some Republicans proposed in

2017 when they were frustrated with the Senate ref for nixing items from Trump's Obamacare

repeal bill, which went through reconciliation. Senator Ted Cruz argued that the

vice president, who's also the president of the Senate, could ignore the merely advisory opinions

of the parliamentarian and say, hey, I'm going to make the rules here. Who's in favor of option two?

We're talking lawmakers like Pramilla Jayapal, head of the House Progressive Caucus, who thinks

the Senate's rules are

absurd. And Representative Rokana, who tweeted this, quote, I'm sorry, an unelected parliamentarian

does not get to deprive 32 million Americans the raise they deserve. Outside progressive groups are

also asking for meetings with VP Harris and the White House to pursue this option.

Now, who's opposed option to? Ron Clayne and Joe Biden. Clay nicks the idea in an interview on

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