May 24, 2021: Biden’s deadlines come due
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🗓️ 24 May 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Presented by Facebook. |
| 0:03.6 | It's Monday morning. I'm Olivia Reingold, and this is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing. |
| 0:12.9 | This is kind of like exam week for President Joe Biden, with two major pieces of legislation hitting self-imposed deadlines. |
| 0:21.9 | He'll be graded on how well he's able to cobble together bipartisan support for both efforts, |
| 0:27.4 | the second leg of his infrastructure package and his policing reform bill. |
| 0:32.2 | But odds of getting Republicans on board for either of those aren't looking great. |
| 0:39.3 | Let's start with deadline number one, Memorial Day weekend. |
| 0:43.3 | It might be your cue to wear white again and text that one friend with a grill, |
| 0:48.3 | but for President Joe Biden, Memorial Day is the last day he said he'd give himself to strike an infrastructure deal with Republicans. |
| 0:56.0 | To try and meet that target, the Biden administration slashed its initial proposal by more than $500 billion, |
| 1:03.0 | to try and woo Republicans, bringing the overall price tag down from $2.3 trillion to now $1.7 trillion. |
| 1:13.2 | Is that meeting still happening today? And can you give just kind of an update on where |
| 1:17.2 | things stand and any movement that may or may not be happening? |
| 1:20.7 | Sure. It is happening. It may be ongoing as we speak. |
| 1:23.9 | Mid meeting as Biden officials were zooming with Senate Republicans, press secretary |
| 1:28.9 | Jen Saki said the administration was optimistic about the prospects of bipartisanship. |
| 1:34.8 | And in our view, this is the act, the art, I should say, of seeking common ground. |
| 1:40.4 | This proposal exhibits a willingness to come down in size, giving on some areas that are important to the president. |
| 1:47.0 | Otherwise, they wouldn't have been in the proposal, while also staying firm in areas that are most vital to rebuilding our infrastructure and industries of the future. |
| 1:57.1 | Coming out of the meeting, Biden officials doubled down on that attitude, saying they were |
| 2:02.6 | open to compromise but not on its red lines on how to fund the bill. |
| 2:10.3 | Senate Republicans like Shelley Moore Capito, the GOP's lead negotiator on the deal, left |
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