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Good morning, everyone. It's playbook co-author Eugene Daniels. It is Tuesday, January 7th.

Here is what's driving the day. For Congress, the easy part of Donald Trump's return to the White House is now done yesterday.

They certified the electoral

colleges votes. The final thing that needed to happen before the inauguration can take place on January 20th.

Now, as they say, comes the hard part enacting the agenda. Their majority in the House is one of the

narrowest in history. There is an expansive

amount of policy they want to pass, and now the debate is turning to the best way to do that.

What's realistic? Specifically about the use of the always complicated, always nerdy budget reconciliation

process. Here to chat with me more about that is senior congressional editor Mike DeBonis. That is a new title, Mike. Welcome to the podcast in your new role. Prodigal Son, I believe, is what you should be referring to me as. The prodigal son with a new fancy title. Came back in one day. Exactly. Exactly. You couldn't stay away from us. That's what it was. So we're just too much fun. I missed you so much, Eugene. I couldn't make it 12 hours into my new job. I appreciate it. Don't go anywhere. Don't go too far. In your basically the same role, lots of congressional coverage and all the Congress things bouncing in your head.

But let's start here. Trump called for kind of this one powerful bill, a beautiful bill.

Mike Johnson called it at one point to kind of carry forward his domestic policy agenda using reconciliation.

That was tax policy, energy policy, border policy.

But then Monday morning, he suggested on Hugh Hewitt that maybe it didn't need to be a single bill.

So where do things stand this morning?

Do we have any indication whether or not the one or two bill aspect actually matters here?

What's the plan?

You've heard the phrase, let Trump be Trump. Correct.

Yes.

Trump being Trump is he never really settles anything for good.

Like, it's a constant moving target, any decision, any debate, he can be persuaded on a day-to-day, hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute

basis to go one way to another, you know, go one way or another.

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