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The Playbook Podcast

July 30, 2021: Sinema’s vacation plans and Manchin gets booed

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

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🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Sen. Krysten Sinema is not letting BIF or the reconciliation bill get in the way of her summer plans. When Chuck Schumer announced earlier this month that he might keep the Senate in session into August — delaying a previously scheduled recess in order to shepherd the two gigantic bills through the chamber — Sinema told the majority leader that she was not sticking around to vote, multiple Senate sources tell Playbook. She had prior vacation plans, she said, and wasn’t about to let the infrastructure or reconciliation bills get in the way. She may be in luck, though: Rank-and-file hopes run high on the Hill that if the BIF-related votes pass without a hitch, Schumer could hold a vote-a-rama on the budget Thursday night, allowing senators to leave Washington by Aug. 6 with their summer plans intact. But maybe that’s too rosy (or rosé, if you’ll pardon the pun). Raghu Manavalan is the host of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the senior producer for POLITICO Audio. Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0

Presented by Facebook.

0:02.4

Good morning, Playbookers.

0:04.2

It's Friday, July 30th.

0:05.9

I'm Rogumana Vall.

0:07.4

And this is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

0:14.4

Last night, as President Joe Biden boarded Marine One, he made some news.

0:20.6

First, he reiterated that immigration reform should be included in the reconciliation bill.

0:25.6

How did the meeting on DACA bill?

0:27.6

It went very well. What I think we should include in the reconciliation bill, the immigration proposal.

0:33.6

My staff putting out a message right now.

0:35.6

It's a position he's staked out before, but this is the first we've heard about it since

0:40.3

there was movement on the BIF. It's worth remembering for this to happen, Dems would need

0:44.9

a favorable ruling from the Senate parliamentarian, and that hasn't happened yet.

0:49.7

Then Biden went on to say that Senator Kirsten Sinema, who said on Wednesday that she would

0:53.8

not support a $3.5 trillion

0:55.8

reconciliation bill, is quote, on board for passing reconciliation if, in fact, she sees all the

1:01.4

pieces of it. That's why she allowed the budget to go forward. Speaking of which,

1:06.1

Cinema is not letting the BIF or the reconciliation bill get in the way of her summer plans.

1:11.6

When Senator Chuck Schumer announced earlier this month that he might keep the Senate in session into August,

1:16.4

delaying a previously scheduled recess in order to shepherd the two gigantic bills through the chamber,

1:21.4

multiple Senate sources tell Playbook that Cinema told the majority leader that she was not sticking around to vote.

1:27.0

She had prior vacation plans, she said, and wasn't about to let the infrastructure or reconciliation

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