Sept. 3, 2021: Scoop: It’s Bernie vs. Pelosi on reconciliation

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🗓️ 3 September 2021

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A few reactions and realities the day after the Supreme Court abortion decision... States are already weighing copycat laws on abortions, Covid-19 precautions, and gun restrictions... Democrats feel the limits of their power in trying to protect Roe v. Wade... Even some anti-abortion conservatives think the Texas law is bad for their cause. MEDICARE EXPANSION VS. ACA: Democratic leaders have been spending the August recess privately sparring over which health care programs should get priority in the party’s $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. The fight is expected to drag out for days if not weeks — and pits extra benefits for seniors versus coverage for more low-income individuals... Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to shore up subsidies for Obamacare, while Sen. Bernie Sanders is looking to expand Medicare to include dental, vision and hearing... in the middle, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is trying to persuade Pelosi. Carlos Prieto is a Politico podcast producer.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 AT&T
0:02.0	Good morning, Playbookers. It's Friday, September 3rd. I'm Carlos Prieto and today for
0:07.8	Ragu, Mn Mnoboanavalin, and this is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.
0:11.9	Now that we know that the Supreme Court is not immediately overturning the Texas abortion
0:16.0	restrictions, let's take a look at what's next in the battle over reproductive rights in
0:20.2	the country and
0:20.9	the fate of Roe v. Wade.
0:25.0	Already, several states are looking to replicate similar laws as the one in Texas.
0:29.6	Politico's Alice Miranda Olstein and Josh Gerstein report that officials in Arkansas, South
0:33.7	Dakota, and Florida announced yesterday their weighing copycat laws and basing their
0:37.8	own abortion laws on citizen enforcement. On the flip side, lawyers are telling us that Democrat-led
0:42.8	states could take the blueprint of Texas's law and adopt a similar structure for gun restrictions
0:47.6	and COVID precautions. Keep in mind, though, that the Supreme Court's refusal to strike down the
0:52.6	law on Wednesday was limited to the way the law was implemented, but lower courts could still side against it and strike
0:58.7	it down or pause it before other states get to pass their own bills.
1:06.0	Meanwhile, Democrats spent Thursday grappling with the realization that there's virtually
1:09.7	nothing they can do about
1:11.0	Texas's abortion law or the Supreme Court's decision. Throughout the day, President Joe Biden and
1:16.5	House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said they would try to fight against it, but internally, they as well as
1:21.1	the party at large, know that they don't have the votes in the Senate to preempt the Supreme Court's
1:25.2	ruling on whether to overturn Roe v. Wade or
1:28.0	tilt the scales by expanding the court.
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