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Welcome to the Commentary magazine daily podcast today is Wednesday, October 27th, 2021.

I'm John Pophortz, the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always, executive editor

A Greenwald Hyade. Hi John, senior writer Christine Rosen, Hyde Christine.

Hi John. And associate editor Noah Rothman, Hynella.

Hi John. All right, so let's discuss the last 24 hours in the life of Joe Biden's

life saving career saving transformational reconciliation bill that he has placed so much stock in.

He is leaving for a trip to Europe tomorrow, Thursday. And we're told that there is a desperate

desire to get a framework for this gigantic multi trillion dollar bill in place before he gets

on the plane. 12 30 yesterday afternoon, the number two person in the House of Representatives

Democrat Steny Hoyer, according to Lisa Dijardin of of of PBS NewsHour, says Hoyer just told us an

agreement on reconciliation could come in the quote next few hours, unquote, note, that's

widely different than the picture members across the spectrum gave me today, today tomorrow

critical, but hours seems out of step. Okay, that was 12 30. Let's move on to 921 p.m.

Washington Post front page headline on the website. Two days before the president's planned

trip talks continued between Democrats, warring, moderate and liberal factions on roughly three

trillion dollars in new economic spending initiatives. Unquote. If you read between the lines here,

we know that the hard infrastructure bill, which is one of the two things that's being discussed

here and that passed the Senate with a veto proof majority and is waiting on the House to act

is a trillion dollars. So from this, we can glean if it's roughly three trillion dollars in

spending that the budget reconciliation package that Biden is now working on costs two trillion

dollars. So this headline is a bizarre headline because if it's two trillion dollars, it's dead.

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