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Good morning, playbookers in Rookin Winavolin. It's Thursday. And here's the question after

Joe Biden's press conference yesterday. What's next? This is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

There's a lot to unpack from President Joe Biden's Marathon Press Conference in the

East Room.

But let's start with this statement deep into the one hour and 51 minute event.

You guys have been trying to convince me that I am Bernie Sanders.

I'm not.

I like him, but I'm not Bernie Sanders.

It wasn't so long ago when White House aides were happy to promote the fact that Sanders,

chair of the Budget Committee, wrote the initial Build Back Better legislation in the Senate

as a signal to progressives that Biden was truly their champion.

One of the newsiest bits from Biden was his grappling with the reality of how his two

biggest priorities would need to be scaled back. On Build Back Better, Biden said that the expanded

child tax credit, the most important progressive achievement of his first year, will need to

be jettisoned, ditto for federally subsidized community college. That reality has sunk in

with important parts of the left. Senator Elizabeth

Warren had this to say, quote, we need to get as much as we can across the finish line,

so we need to do what it takes to get every vote. And on voting rights, as the president spoke,

Senators Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema were hours away from rejecting his pitch to scrap

the filibuster to pass

sweeping voting reform. But Biden set the stage for bipartisan talks on a much narrower package,

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