Presented by Amazon. Good Wednesday morning. I'm Adrienne Hurst and welcome to your playbook daily briefing. Picture this. While you sit down today for a delicious homemade lunch that's totally not a frozen burrito eaten over the sink for the third day in a row. Over on the hill, a group of 20 Senate Dems and Republicans will be lunching together, trying to make bipartisan progress

on a buffet of hot-button issues. I know what you're thinking. Bipartisanship, over lunch,

in this economy? And playbookers, far be it from me to tell you not to be cynical. In fact,

we've got the scoop in just a minute on one major way the right is going to rock the boat

today. So yes, the chances is going to rock the boat today.

So yes, the chances of anything substantial coming out of today's breadbreaking are not exactly high.

And privately, the senators all know it.

Progressives are polling Biden and the party further left.

They do not want to dilute their goals while the GOP is already eyeing a takeover in the midterms.

On the other side of today's lunch table, moderate Republicans are feeling gloomy.

They thought they'd be riding high with Biden in the White House, a Democrat they could maybe,

just maybe cut deals with.

Those hopes were dashed early with the pandemic talks, although Dems say, sure, Jan, to the idea that the GOP was ever genuinely

interested in getting to yes. Now, with the next big debate on the table, infrastructure,

few people are expecting the outcome to be any different. There's also plenty of skepticism that

this could happen on the minimum wage, police reform, immigration, even legislation to address

violence against women. In theory, there is a middle ground on all of these issues, but there's

no sign the will is there among the people who could actually make this happen.

Chuck Schumer might also find it politically advantageous to put more liberal versions of bills

on the floor, force Republicans to vote against

them, and then tee up the ads painting Republicans as anti-women, anti-equality, and anti-immigrant.

Going that route would also give the left a stronger justification to nix the filibuster, which is what they ultimately want.

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