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Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, we've got the latest on infrastructure negotiations.

Number two, a big Trump loss in Texas.

And number three, masks are back in the Capitol.

All right, Jake, we have been covering every twist and turn of these infrastructure negotiations.

It seems as though it's kind of down to two men at this point. Senator Rob Portman, the Republican from Ohio and veteran Democratic operative and Biden advisor, Steve Rischetti.

Yeah, that's right.

Two Ohio natives going at it in the, in the, not in the capital, but I guess also in the

capital and the White House, they are, they are trying very hard to get this deal.

Now, we asked Portman a couple days ago, I think it was a

couple days ago, that about whether it was really down to him in Roshetti. He said, no,

everyone's involved. But, you know, last night we sent out, along with Christian Hall and

Max Cohen and me and you and John Bresenhan our evening addition to premium subscribers

around 5 p.m. I believe it was. And Roshetti and Portman were meeting. And by 8 o'clock,

9 o'clock even, they were also meeting. So it was a log meeting in the Capitol trying to get

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