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Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook co-author Rachel Bade. It's Tuesday, May 30th. House members are going to be cutting their Memorial Day recess short and returning to Washington today. Why? You probably already know. To prepare to vote on a bipartisan debt-sealing deal that President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy struck over the weekend.

Leaders in both parties are going to be spending much of the day whipping their rank and file to make sure they can get those 218 votes needed to pass this bill out of the House.

On the left, the White House has been arguing to Democrats that while they may not like this bill, it could have been far worse had they caved to more Republican demands.

They're also telling their members that Democrats can't be responsible for default,

so they're just going to have to swallow this.

On the right, the whipping is actually going in both directions.

You've got Republican leaders who are going to be huddling with their members in a rare 7.30 p.m. conference meeting tonight.

And they're expected to argue that this is a victory for them.

They forced Biden to the negotiating table when he said he wanted a clean debt ceiling increase.

They cut spending. They got new work requirements.

But then you've got conservatives who are very much pushing back on this and see it in a totally

different light. They note that Republicans didn't actually cut spending. They just froze it,

and technically they're right about that. One conservative Republican Chip Roy of Texas even called

this agreement a quote, turd sandwich. Very colorful. And I remember seeing another conservative

on Twitter this weekend retweeting the

details of the deal with a barf emoji. Now the House Freedom Caucus is going to be doing

oppressor today and Heritage Action which came out against the bill is probably also going to be

pushing members to oppose it. I'll just say at the outset here that both sides actually think

they are going to get the votes to

pass this thing out of the House, but it won't be without drama. And that's probably why they're

planning to hold this vote, at least right now, after the markets close on Wednesday. That way,

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