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Hey, good morning, playbookers. I'm Roku-Munavalin. It's Monday, and today's show, the political calculus behind some tough decisions for Democrats.

This is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

The drama surrounding Representative Lauren Bobert's Islamophobic comments about Representative Ilhan Omar is about to heat up this week.

Sources tell us a group of Democrats is expected to push leadership to strip Bobert over committee assignments or censure her.

This comes after she joked about Omar, who is Muslim, being safe to ride with in an elevator because she wasn't wearing a backpack.

Here's the thing though. This is a messier situation for Democrats than their moves to punish representatives Paul Gosar and Marjorie Taylor Green.

Unlike those two, Bobbard issued a public apology and reached out to Omar's office to try to speak with her.

GOP leader Kevin McCarthy even tried to play peacemaker, calling House majority leader

Stanley Hoyer personally this weekend, and asking him to facilitate a meeting between the two

women.

Some Democrats, particularly allies of Omar, don't see Bobert's apology as authentic.

Omar's office wouldn't say whether she will take Bobert up on her offer to meet, but

other Democrats privately worry that if they punish a lawmaker who admits a mistake, Omar's office wouldn't say whether she will take Bobert up on her offer to meet, but other

Democrats privately worry that if they punish a lawmaker who admits a mistake and tries to make

immense, they'll be setting themselves up for similar treatment, or worse, under a future

GOP majority.

If Democrats don't lower the boom on Bobert, what message would have sent to the Muslim

community?

But if they do, what message does that

send to those who apologize for saying something wrong? Republicans have their own divide to navigate

here too. Taylor Green took to Twitter to tweak Bobert over her apology, writing that, quote,

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