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The Playbook Podcast

June 25, 2021: Can Dems land the infrastructure plane?

The Playbook Podcast

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3.9 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled a rather daring new strategy Thursday for getting the president’s agenda passed. The gist is this: If Biden’s proposal for “family infrastructure” and climate change doesn’t pass, then neither will the bipartisan infrastructure deal that senators just struck. But the Biden-Schumer-Pelosi playbook also has the makings of a serious legislative cluster — and high drama over whether Democrats can actually pull this off — this summer and possibly into the fall. 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 the American Investment Council.

0:04.3

Hey, good morning, Playbookers. It's Friday, June 25th. I'm Rugamuna Vallin, and this is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

0:16.4

President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

0:21.3

unveiled a rather daring new strategy Thursday for getting the president's agenda passed.

0:26.9

It goes a little something like this.

0:28.7

If Biden's proposal for family infrastructure and climate change doesn't pass,

0:33.3

then neither will the bipartisan infrastructure deal that Senators just struck.

0:37.9

Think of this as a plan B after Senators Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema

0:42.2

refused to promise that they'll support a multi-trillion dollar reconciliation package.

0:47.7

But the Biden-Schumer policy playbook also has the makings of a serious legislative train wreck.

0:53.0

According to Hill Sources, here's your new

0:54.8

timeline of how this thing is going to work. First step, the Senate will turn the bipartisan

0:59.3

agreement into legislative text in the coming days so it can pass it out of the chamber in July.

1:04.5

The House will likely have its own version of the bill. But instead of a combined bill ready for

1:08.9

Biden's signature before the August recess,

1:15.7

expect the infrastructure bill to wait until the Democrats' only package catches up.

1:16.6

Step number two.

1:21.0

Schumer and Pelosi plan to have both their chambers pass their respective budget resolutions before the August recess.

1:23.1

That will enable Democrats to unlock the fast-tracking reconciliation tool.

1:27.5

Step number three, the budget will include instructions for each committee to tackle everything

1:31.6

from corporate tax hikes to climate change, education, paid family leave, and the like.

1:37.1

In other words, everything Democrats want that's not included in the bipartisan infrastructure

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