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Hey, good morning, playbookers. It's Tuesday, June 15th. I'm Ragumanovalin, and this is your Politico

Playbook Daily Briefing. When we left off yesterday, there was some optimism around a

potential bipartisan deal on infrastructure. Today, well, not so much.

Now, things move pretty fast in DC. It's possible this all gets sorted out pretty soon,

but things looked pretty bleak at the close of business in the Senate on Monday. To sum it up,

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is getting squeezed by both ends of its conference.

Schumer has argued to his members that they can pull the deal off in two steps.

First, passing a smaller bipartisan deal that Senators Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema support.

Then, another bill tackling climate, expanded social welfare programs, and corporate tax reforms via reconciliation that only requires democratic support.

There's a couple big problems with this strategy, though.

Mention and Cinema have avoided committing to a bill that goes through reconciliation.

In fairness, it's asking a lot to pledge support to a presumably massive bill

that hasn't even really been written yet. Cinema's office alluded to this in a statement sent to

playbook, and on the other side of the ledger, Senator Sanders announced that he's a hard no on the

tentative bipartisan deal. This has major implications not only in the Senate, where Democrats

wouldn't need an additional Republican vote, but also in the House, where the Democratic majority

is razor thin. It's not that hard to see a scenario where members of the squad and the

Congressional Progressive Caucus also follow Sanders' footsteps and don't back the bill.

Here's what we're watching for next.

Will cinema and mansions say no to reconciliation if Democrats reject this proposal?

Schumer needs every Democrat.

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