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It's Thursday, September 9th, and this is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

It started off with a $6 trillion price tag.

Ben, it was lower to $3.5 trillion.

Now there's reporting suggesting that Senator Jill

Manchin wants the total for the Democrats reconciliation bill to drop as low as $1.5 trillion.

Though, for what it's worth, some people close to him say that his comfort zone is something

closer to around $2 trillion. But here's the question. What exactly will the Democrats'

top line number be?

The process of recrafting the bill will kick off in earnest today.

As the House Ways and Means Committee, the Education Committee and Labor Committee began marking up their proposals.

And already, there are tensions over the issues being voted on.

For example, we're told that the $762 billion in vision for education,

which includes more than $450 billion for child care at universal pre-K, and hundreds of billions

more for school infrastructure and free community college, won't likely make it to the White

House intact. Likewise, a battle for limited resources is driving the fight over which health care proposals

to include, pitting the House against the Senate and the White House. Now, the dollar total

will be dictated by how much Democrats can generate with tax hikes and other revenue raisers,

which, by the way, is a huge area of contention itself. Democrats could find themselves

with about $1 to $2 trillion in revenue,

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