Presented by Facebook. Good Wednesday morning. I'm Adrienne Hurst and welcome to your

Playbook Daily briefing. It's Infrastructure Day. This afternoon in Pittsburgh, Biden will formally

pull back the curtain on his multi-trillion dollar infrastructure plan. His first swing at an effort,

both Obama and Trump tried and failed to deliver. Already, Biden's plan is

dodging blows from all sides of the political spectrum. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says this thing

needs to be way bigger than it already is. She points out the bill is more than $2 trillion

spread out over several years compared with the COVID bills nearly two trillion

in shorter term spending. And AOC's not alone here. Just this week, Representative Debbie Dingell

and Senator Ed Markey floated a $10 trillion climate plan. But even those who lean more center

of left have gripes other than the price tag. New York rep Tom Swazi is saying,

no salt, no deal, referring to the state and local tax deduction he wants to see restored in the plan.

And Richard Neal, the Houseways and Means Chair, is tossing and turning over tax hikes in the plan.

His fear, according to sources on a call yesterday with White House officials,

is that people might not stimulate the economy with those stemmy checks just yet if they hear

tax increases are on the horizon. That puts Neal on the same page with Republicans, who so far

are ruling out playing nice with Dems on infrastructure if it means raising the corporate tax rate.

That's exactly what Biden

plans to do, boosting the rate from 21% to 28%. The White House says attaching a corporate tax

overhaul to infrastructure will get the package fully paid for in 15 years. Here's your playbook

crew's initial read on the plan based on all these reactions. First, keeping Dems united

will be a way heavier lift here than it was with COVID relief. On that front, Dems largely deferred to

the White House because of the urgency of the crisis. Second, good luck finding 10 Republicans to support

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