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Today on the Playbook podcast, Democrats are on a role in Congress and they've got Trump's

tariffs in their sites. All eyes on Minnesota this in Congress and they've got Trump's tariffs in their sights.

All eyes on Minnesota this morning is Tom Homan prepares to announce further steps on the drawdown on ice

and why being a friendly ambassador in Washington is harder than it looks these days. Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard.

And I'm Megan Messerly. It's Thursday, February 12th. Megan, great to have you back. How are you?

I'm good. I'm just waiting for spring to hit. Jack, you've got a tease of it this week, but it's not quite warm enough for me.

We're all waiting for spring to hit. Oh man. DC's turned from this ice-infested planet into just a very wet place where there's water just pouring off everything.

Exactly. I was in a parking garage area. It was just a deluge coming down on top of me.

I hear you. And there is a deluge coming down upon Hill Republicans as well, dare I say, Megan, because last night it felt like a pretty big moment to me to see the Republicans

lose a vote in the House and a significant vote on tariffs for the very first time.

It's been, what, more than 10 months since Donald Trump really started moving forward with

his big tariff agenda.

We've heard Republicans grumbling about it privately the whole time.

Obviously, Democrats up in arms about it.

The Supreme Court case rumbles on, but Congress has basically sat back and let it happen.

Until the back end of last year, when the Senate voted against the tariffs,

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