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Hey, good morning, playbookers.

It's Thursday, June 24th.

I'm Rogumana Vollen, and this is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

Yesterday, I mentioned it was feeling like Groundhog Day around these parts, but today,

it's probably closer to

Moby Dick. President Joe Biden seems to have all been secured that elusive bipartisan

infrastructure deal that both parties have been talking about for years. After a meeting with

White House officials last night, the group of centrists working on that deal declared that they had a working framework.

Today, that group is headed to the White House to meet with the president.

Republican senators, Susan Collins, and Rob Portman did warn that there are still a few

details to iron out, but a well-positioned administration source tells us the deal is basically set.

That leaves the question, what's next?

We know that at least 11 Senate Republicans have agreed to back the plan.

Unfortunately, the same number of Democrats have expressed reservations.

That adds up to some tricky math to pull this thing off.

Senator Chris Murphy alluded to that predicament to Anderson

Cooper on CNN last night. Well, my sense is that that deal right now has 20 votes, not 60 votes.

We're going to have to take a deep dive into the agreement that they've reached and, you know,

square it with the needs of our voters. Here's what's on the checklist for the 21 senators who were part of this plan, sell it to

their own colleagues.

Now, aside from President Biden, Senators Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema come out of this deal

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