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Daily Briefing.

Here's the most important development that came from President Joe Biden's five hours of meetings,

with 23 legislators in the Oval Office on Wednesday, according to a

senior White House official, moderates agreed that they need to coalesce around an offer to the

liberals.

It might not sound like much, but given just how Doug and both sides have been, the White House

views the commitment from the Mansion Cinema Wing as a real breakthrough.

In a trio of meetings, Biden first hosted Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.

Then he brought in a group of centrist Democrats from both chambers of Congress.

And finally, he gathered key progressives.

They snacked on individually wrapped cookies with the presidential seal.

The president was loquacious.

According to one senator present, it's Biden.

So you know Joe does a fair amount

of talking. It was that second meeting with centrist that produced the most news. It started

with the president pressing 11 moderates like Mention and Cinema to give him a specific

top line number on the reconciliation bill. They all refused and instead offered to nail down

an agreed-upon list of revenue raisers first.

Representative Stephanie Murphy came to the meeting with a 10-plus page spreadsheet of ways to fund the bill.

Biden fished again for a top line.

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