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Good morning playbookers. I'm Ragu Mona Vaulen. It's Monday, and this is your Politico Playbook

Daily briefing. Congress is three days out from a critical vote on a key plank of the

president's agenda, a massive $1.2 trillion

infrastructure package, and we're told from sources across the party that President Joe

Biden and House Democratic leaders haven't even started the whipping process.

Our colleagues Natasha Karecki and Laura Barone Lopez reported last night that the president

was making calls and doing Zoom sessions

from Camp David over the weekend on the BIF and the larger reconciliation package.

But the seeming lack of urgency so far, given the sheer scale of the task on the mere dates

to complete it, is alarming some House Democrats going into a critical week, said one

moderate House Democrat, I don't understand why the president isn't whipping his own historic bill.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been trying to project an air of confidence, she announced

to last night, that she plans to start the House debate on the BIF today with the vote Thursday.

The hope is that leaders can announce an agreement for framework on reconciliation with

Senators Kirsten Cinema and Joe Manchin, by then, freeing progressives to vote on the BIF.

The problem, though, almost everyone we spoke to on Sunday said the timing is unlikely at best.

Once he had our Democratic aide even called it fiction.

Quote, there are literally

no negotiations with anyone, another House moderate said. Moderate Democrats expected Biden to start

twisting House progressives' arms during their White House meeting last week, but we're told by

sources in the Progressive Camp and another senior Democratic aide that the president has

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