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It's Wednesday, and this is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

One question we've had during infrastructure talks.

What's the state of negotiations between the White House and Senators Joe Machen and Kirsten Cinema? The talks have been shrouded in mystery, but we have some fresh details we can share this morning. While Mention has been willing to discuss his priorities in detail with his colleagues in the Senate, cinema, on the other hand, only negotiates with the White House. She told one Democratic senator recently, quote, I'm not going to share with

you or with Schumer or with Pelosi. I've already told the White House what I'm willing to do

and what I'm not willing to do. I'm not mysterious. It's not that I can't make up my mind.

I communicated it to them in detail. They just don't like what they're hearing. Part of solving

the main cinema puzzle is that the two are at odds on some major policies.

From a source close to Biden who spent the last few days talking to senior White House officials,

quote, Mention and Cinema want very different things, both in terms of revenue and programs.

If you just took their currently presented red lines, you wouldn't have enough left to get

the past progressives in the House and Senate. It wouldn't raise enough money, and it wouldn't have enough left to get this past progressives in the House and Senate.

It wouldn't raise enough money, and it wouldn't do enough big programs. The biggest obstacle

cinema is created, according to Democrats, is on prescription drug pricing reform. The most

robust version of this plan to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices would bring in some

$800 billion of

revenue at the expense of the drug industry.

It's one of the most popular policies on the Democrats' menu of options, and many party

strategists believe Democrats owe their House majority to the issue.

But we're told that Democrats would be lucky if they managed to convince cinema to support

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