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Hey, good morning, playbookers. It's Thursday, June 17th. I'm Ragu Manovalin, and this is your Politico

Playbook Daily Briefing.

It might truly be Infrastructure Week here in Washington, D.C. 21 senators now support the framework

proposed by Senators Kirsten Cinema, Joe Manchin, Mitt Romney, D.C. 21 senators now support the framework proposed by Senators Kirsten

Cinema, Joe Manchin, Mitt Romney, and other members of a bipartisan group of senators. Some

Democrats were skeptical the GOP would ever be able to deliver the 10 votes necessary to clear

the filibuster. That number right now is at 11. The group released its framework Wednesday night.

You can check it out on Politico for the specifics. We're told that this is not the precise

version of the framework that was presented to the White House, but now the Biden administration

faces a big decision that will have consequences for the rest of his agenda. Does he take the deal

and hope the rest of his agenda can pass through reconciliation

without any sort of guarantee from Senators Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema?

Or does he move on and go for one big Democrats-only proposal?

Here's some news.

We got a bit of a scoop from inside the White House on what they're thinking about the bill.

The new bipartisan proposal is being greeted positively at the White House,

where it's considered far superior to Senator Shelley More Capito's proposal,

though there is a reluctance to comment definitively on the details without a more careful look.

The general view is that the daily coverage of these negotiations has been too quick to call

the deal dead when there's a spate of negative news, like from earlier this week, or to overreact

when a deal seems suddenly possible after some positive developments. Okay, I'm feeling a little

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