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Hey, good morning, Playbookers. I'm Ragu Mona Vollen.

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

Now that the dust has settled from last week's drama on the hill,

let's take a look at where things stand with President Joe Biden's core legislative agenda.

October 31st is the new September 30th. Congress extended the highway bill, which expired on September 30th, until Halloween.

Moderates tried to use the expiration of highway funding last week as a pressure point to pass the infrastructure bill.

That didn't quite work.

After Speaker Nancy Pelosi declined to put the BIF up for a vote last week,

she and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer scrambled to extend highway funding to October 31st,

thus creating a new deadline for a comprehensive deal on the BIF and the BBB billed back better.

Schumer said at an event in New York on Sunday, our goal is to get both bills done in the next

month.

The top line number has been reduced by roughly 40%.

From the moderate's perspective, this was their big achievement, one that they argue is

underappreciated.

During his visit to the Hill on Friday night, Biden said the bill would

be reduced from $3.5 trillion to somewhere in the two trillion range. The two bills are linked

once again. From the Progressive's perspective, this was their big achievement, Senator Chris Van

Holland told Playbook. The key takeaway from Friday is that President Biden agrees that the fate of the

BIF and BBB are intertwined. Next step is to get Biden agrees that the fate of the BIF and BBB

are intertwined. Next step is to get Mention and Sinema back to the table at the White House

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