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Hey, good morning, Playbookers. It's Wednesday, July 21st. I'm Rugu Mono-Munavalin.

And this is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

All right, here's today's headline on your favorite topic, the BIF.

To BIF or not to BIF? That is the question.

You might remember we mentioned that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wanted today to be the day that he forced the GOP to put up or shut up on a bipartisan infrastructure deal. But from everyone team Playbook talked to last night, that might not be the case.

Republicans will vote against a motion to proceed to the bill if the text isn't done by the vote

today, but members of the group on both sides of the aisle are expressing hope that the BIF

is really within striking distance.

And Schumer, not to mention the president, just might be pressured to give the deal more time for a once-in-a-generation bipartisan win.

In a sign of the progress, late last night, Senators Mitt Romney and John Tester showed optimism that most issues could be worked out.

We have a feeling today's vote isn't the end of the story.

Here's the upshot. Moderate Senate Democrats like Senator Kirsten Cinema have been working on this deal for months. Given how close they are to the finish line, it's unlikely they'd walk away just because a procedural vote on an artificial deadline fails.

Schumer needs people like Cinema to move on from the BIF to the massive Democrats-only

reconciliation bill.

Over the weekend, aides to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Republican Conference

Chairman John Barroso, and National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott

huddled to devise a counterattack against the Democrats' $3.5 trillion reconciliation package.

Expect to hear one phrase in particular from Republicans over and over this summer.

Another tax and spend spree.

This is the same reckless taxing and spending spree.

Reckless tax and spending spree.

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