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The Playbook Podcast

March 10, 2022: ‘This retreat is cursed’

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Daily News, Government, Politics

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Just after 10 p.m. Wednesday night, the House passed the $1.5 trillion omnibus bill, the first step toward averting a government shutdown and enacting Democratic spending priorities after more than 400 days operating under Trump-era budgets extended via continuing resolutions. But the party’s joy of the occasion was short-lived, as Democratic infighting quickly gobbled up the headlines and forced a daylong delay of the bill’s consideration. Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter Raghu Manavalan is the Host of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the Senior Producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0

Presented by our merchant.

0:02.2

Hey, good morning, Playbookers.

0:04.0

I'm Rogumonovalin.

0:04.9

It's Thursday.

0:06.1

Today's show, so much for an omnibus victory lab.

0:09.7

It's your Politico Playbook daily briefing.

0:16.7

Just after 10 p.m. last night, the House passed a $1.5 trillion omnibus bill.

0:22.4

It's the first step toward averting a government shutdown and enacting democratic spending priorities

0:27.2

after more than 400 days operating under Trump-era budgets extended via continuing resolutions.

0:33.1

But the party's joy of the occasion was short-lived, as infighting quickly gobbled up the headlines

0:37.5

and forced a day-long delay of the bill's consideration.

0:40.9

Quick recap.

0:42.0

More than a dozen House Democrats from across the ideological spectrum,

0:46.0

Balked had proposed offsets for nearly $16 billion in COVID-19 relief funds included in the bill.

0:52.3

Why?

0:52.9

Because the funds would have come out of their state's pandemic money.

0:55.9

They insisted they'd been blindsided and threatened to essentially sink the legislation.

1:00.4

That forced Speaker Nancy Pelosi to yank the bill's pandemic money out entirely.

1:04.2

Despite the fact, it was a top priority from the White House.

1:07.3

But that wasn't all.

1:08.7

Pelosi's frustration with the situation was palpable. In your press

1:11.7

conference Wednesday, she said, let's grow up about this, okay? We're in a legislative process. We have a

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