June 22, 2021
The Daily Punch
Punchbowl News
4.3 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And now, a message from Google. The spirit of innovation is deeply ingrained in America, |
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| 0:23.1 | This is a new era of American innovation. Find out more at g.co slash American innovation. Good morning. I'm Jake Sherman and |
| 0:31.9 | welcome to the Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bowl News. It's Tuesday, June 22nd, |
| 0:36.8 | 2021. Let's get into the mix. |
| 0:39.0 | Here are your Washington headlines for the day. The White House comes to Capitol Hill to try |
| 0:42.9 | to get an infrastructure deal. We have a lot of news on that front. Kirsten Cinema says again |
| 0:48.0 | in the Washington Post, she's not going to blow up the filibuster. And police reform, not dead yet. |
| 0:53.9 | So let's get into the mix the white house is |
| 0:56.2 | dispatching three of its top aides to Capitol Hill today for a flurry of meetings with senators |
| 1:01.5 | with the aim of trying to get a better handle on whether a bipartisan infrastructure deal is possible |
| 1:06.5 | this is a big moment for the White House for this entire process louisa turell, the White House ledge affairs director, Steve Roshetti, counselor to the president. |
| 1:14.4 | And Brian Dees, the director of the National Economic Council, will be on the hill meeting with various permutations of the bipartisan group of 21 senators trying to craft an infrastructure deal. |
| 1:25.7 | So the White House told us last night that they want to see |
| 1:28.3 | real progress this week. And if they do, this is news here, that they're going to invite members of |
| 1:33.5 | this group to meet with Biden later this week at the White House, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, |
| 1:37.6 | one of those days. So, you know, this is kind of a breaking point. Again, we feel like we say this |
| 1:43.8 | every day or every week, but this really is a breaking point. |
| 1:47.3 | We're about to get into the July 4th recess, and Congress is still, the Senate still doesn't have a deal on this front on infrastructure. |
| 1:55.3 | And Biden wants progress and rightfully so. He a Democratic Party frankly that can pass something using |
| 2:01.7 | the reconciliation process, the 50 vote reconciliation process. So they're trying to push this |
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