Good morning, Playbookers on Rugu Minovalin. It's Thursday. Today's show, a new poll shows

huge support for gun restrictions. It's your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

Speaking from the White House yesterday, President Joe Biden reflected on Tuesday's shooting in Texas

and called for new gun restrictions

without identifying any specific proposals.

So what realistically will Washington do?

Mike DeBonez from The Washington Post recently described a, quote, distinct sense of fatalism on Capitol Hill.

With most Republicans standing firm in defense of expansive gun rights, as Democrats said,

they were desperate to pursue even

meager attempts to prevent another tragedy.

To which, a domestic terrorism bill passed by the House, will run into a Republican

wall in the Senate today.

Pluticago's Marianne-Levin and Andrew Desideria report that the GOP, quote, widely views

the legislation as unnecessary and an attempt by Democrats to politicize

the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York less than two weeks ago.

Still, it is possible that the president could issue new executive orders.

After multiple mass shootings in the last several weeks, there's increasing pressure both

externally and internally to actually have some concrete action to point to.

But Biden just signed a series of executive orders last month that aimed to reduce gun violence.

And as Bloomberg's Justin Sink, Jordan Fabian, and Courtney Rosenright, there's little sense

that the White House is preparing new executive actions.

The result is a president with little left beyond the bully pulpit, and dimming hopes for a tangible response to the shooting.

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