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Hey, good morning, Playbookers.

It's Tuesday, July 20th.

I'm Rugumana Vollen.

And this is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

The bipartisan infrastructure framework has had an entire political life that few pieces of legislation enjoy.

A much-aallyhooed agreement

after months of closely watched discussions, a ceremony at the White House, and even a presidential

trip to a swing state where it was celebrated. And yet, after all that drama, it could be as if

the BIF never existed. The core group of bipartisan senators met until about 1045 last night,

trying to work through a list of what GOP Senator Rauportman said

was about two dozen remaining issues.

We were told definitively that there was no chance they would be finished by Wednesday.

That was when Chuck Schumer has scheduled a closure vote.

The Republicans in this

group insist they won't vote yes on that procedural motion, thus possibly facilitating the bill's

demise. There are a few possible scenarios here. The cloture vote fails, but the group keeps

negotiating and produces legislative tax quickly enough for Schumer to agree to take another shot at it.

We're told that they could finish this by this weekend. Several sources noted that this happened

with the CARES Act. Scenario number two, the cloture vote fails and the fallout poisons the

talks leading to the BIF's demise. Scenario number three, five Republicans, buoyed by progress

over the course of Tuesday and

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