Sept. 21, 2021: Double trouble for Biden

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🗓️ 21 September 2021

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Internal Democratic discord has wounded President Joe Biden’s massive social spending plan, raising the prospect that the package could stall out, shrink dramatically — or even fail altogether. Myriad problems have arisen. Moderate Senate Democrats Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) continue to be a major headache for party leadership’s $3.5 trillion target. The Senate parliamentarian just nixed the party’s years long push to enact broad immigration reform. House members may tank the prescription drugs overhaul the party has run on for years. And a fight continues to brew over Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) push to expand Medicare. And today, Biden interrupts his mission to rescue his agenda in Congress with a mission to rescue his agenda with world leaders. He’ll speak at 10 a.m. before the U.N. General Assembly to an audience far more skeptical about his insistence that “America is back” than they were in the afterglow of Donald Trumps loss, which was (mostly) celebrated around the world. Take the POLITICO Podcast Listener Survey Raghu Manavalan is the host of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the senior producer for POLITICO Audio. Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0	Presented by Facebook.
0:03.1	And good morning, playbookers.
0:04.6	I'm a good one of all.
0:05.6	It's Tuesday, and this is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.
0:13.2	Here's a headline to start your morning by way of Politico's Burgess Ever and Heather Kegel.
0:17.7	Dems fear Biden's domestic agenda could implode.
0:21.2	Internal Democratic discord has wounded President Joe Biden's social spending plan,
0:26.3	raising the prospect that the package could stall out, shrink dramatically, or even
0:30.8	fail altogether.
0:32.4	Let's run through the roadblocks.
0:34.1	Centrist, Senate Democrats, Joe Manchin, and Kirsten Cinema continue to be a major
0:38.1	headache for party leadership's $3.5 trillion target. The Senate parliamentarian. Just next, the
0:44.2	party's year-long push to enact wide immigration reform. House members may take the prescription
0:49.0	drugs overhaul the party has run on for years, and the fight continues to brew over a plan
0:53.6	from Senator Bernie Sanders
0:55.0	to expand Medicare.
0:57.3	Representative Emmanuel Cleaver had this to say, quote, if any member of Congress is not concerned
1:02.2	that this could fall apart, they need treatment.
1:05.2	He also went on to warn that his party will, quote, pay for it at the polls if it fails in
1:09.7	enacting Biden's agenda.
1:11.3	The multi-problem pile up comes out a critical moment for the party and for Biden,
1:15.1	who could use a legislative win amid recent slumping approval ratings.
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