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Good Monday morning and happy International Women's Day. I'm Adrienne Hurst. Welcome to your Politico

Playbook audio briefing. Talk about a dramatic weekend. And no, I'm not talking about last night's

Harry and Megan special. After a grueling all-nighter in the Senate Friday, we're finally at the finish line.

In the next 48 hours, one of the biggest spending bills in U.S. history is expected to be

signed into law, sending a third round of stimulus checks into Americans' pockets.

Now, there's just one last hurdle the COVID-Aid package needs to jump over before it can land on Biden's desk. That's a final

vote in the House. Watch for that to happen tomorrow and for once, without a big spectacle.

Democrat sources say Pelosi and her leadership team are not anticipating any issues within their

caucus, which would make the House the Golden Child compared with the Senate. In case you

weren't glued to

Twitter on Friday, a lot happened in the upper chamber. Kirsten Cinema got heat for an animated

thumbs down while casting her vote against including a $15 minimum wage in the package, and the

second most powerful Joe in Washington, Senator Mansion, immobilized the entire chamber for more than 10 hours while

threatening to side with Republicans' push to cut weeks of unemployment benefits. In the end, Dems and

even Biden himself had to plead with Manchin to move forward with the process so they could pass the

bill on Saturday. But the 11th hour pot stirring baffled even Mansions West Virginia counterpart,

Republican Shelley Moore Capito. She told Politico, quote, I have no idea what he's doing,

to be quite frank. Maybe you can tell me. So yeah, you can expect the remainder of the COVID

bill's journey to Biden's desk to be a bit less dramatic. The new version of the bill headed to the

House has a few

notable changes, including less money for unemployment benefits, $300 a week through the beginning

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