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Hello, I'm Adam Wren.

And I'm Zach Stanton.

It's Friday, May 16th.

And this is the Playbook podcast.

Here are some headlines driving the day.

President Donald Trump is waking up on the final day of his Middle East

trip in Abu Dhabi. And when he returns home, he will return to a bit of a headache in the House

of Representatives where his so-called one big, beautiful bill is encountering some pushback. Zach,

tell us a little bit about that. Yeah, so it's a bit like squeezing

a water balloon where they try to clamp down on one side of the party and the opposition swells

on the other side of it. And so you have right now the party ribbon between its conservatives and

its moderates. And the moderates in swing districts and blue states tend to be really

riled up about the idea of cuts to Medicaid and about making sure that there are major deductions for state and local taxes in their high tax states.

Now, that is rubbing a lot of conservatives the wrong way, and those hardliners are making their opposition to this package felt at this moment in time.

And it's all looking like it's going to be a situation where it'll be very difficult for the House Republicans to pass this bill before Memorial Day, at least at this juncture.

Yeah, another story that I've been tracking.

My ex account has been blowing up with tweets on the right side about a post from former FBI

director James Comey. And it was simply the numbers 86, 47. So for those people who haven't worked

in a restaurant before, 86 essentially means dropping or killing an order, deep-sixing something.

And 47 is obviously the number that Trump is in office.

He's the 47th president of the United States.

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