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Hey, what's up Playbookers on Rogumonovalin? It's Thursday.

Democrats might control the Senate, but today's show why they actually don't really control

the Senate. It's your Politico Playbook daily briefing.

Just this week alone, COVID relief was cut from the Ukraine aid bill and national law to codify

abortion protections should the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade came nowhere close to the 60 votes

needed to advance it. And the 50 votes, it would take to nuke the filibuster and pass the abortion

rights law are also unav available to Senate Majority Leader

Chuck Schumer. And if there are serious negotiations underway to pass a buildback Better 2.0

in advance of the midterms, they, well, are a well-kept secret. As Pluticus Burgess Everett writes

in today's playbook this morning, quote, every day, it seems, brings another reminder of the severe

limitations of Democrats' illusory majority in a 50-50 Senate.

More from Burgess, quote,

Democrats have had great success confirming President Joe Biden's nominees,

punctuated this week by installing a new FTC commissioner who gave Democrats the majority

and the first black woman on the Federal Reserve Board.

But on the day-to-day basis, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's job is an excretiating grind

based on whether any of his numbers have COVID if Republicans are feeling cooperative

and where a handful of Democrats stand.

And sometimes Schumer's tactics expose his own party's divisions.

Like when Senator Joe Manention and Senator Kirsten

Sinema voted down an effort to gut the filibuster for elections reform or during Wednesday's

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