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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPOLITICO Playbook: Inside the room of Biden's talks with Dems
THE READOUT Heres the most important development that came from President JOE BIDENs five hours of meetings with 23 legislators in the Oval Office on Wednesday, according to a senior White House official: Moderates agreed that they need to coalesce around an offer to the liberals.It might not sound like much. But given how dug in both sides have been, the White House views the commitment from the Manch-ema wing as a real breakthrough.
In a trio of meetings Biden first hosted Senate Majority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER and Speaker NANCY PELOSI, then he brought in a bicameral group of centrist Democrats, and finally he gathered key progressives from both chambers. They snacked on individually wrapped cookies with the presidential seal. The president was loquacious, according to one senator present: Its Biden, so you know Joe does a fair amount of talking. The last session ended just after 7 p.m.
The second meeting produced the most news. It started with the president pressing his 11 guests including JOE MANCHIN, KYRSTEN SINEMA, STEPHANIE MURPHY and JOSH GOTTHEIMER to give him a specific top-line number for the reconciliation bill. They all refused and instead argued Dems should nail down an agreed-upon list of revenue raisers that would determine the top line. Murphy came to the meeting with a 10-plus-page spreadsheet of ways to fund the bill.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/09/23/inside-the-room-of-bidens-talks-with-dems-494444
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POLITICO Playbook: Inside the room of Biden's talks with Dems (Original Post)
AZProgressive
Sep 2021
OP
"They snacked on individually wrapped cookies with the presidential seal." n/t
PoliticAverse
Sep 2021
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PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)1. "They snacked on individually wrapped cookies with the presidential seal." n/t
Xoan
(25,321 posts)3. Inquiring minds et al.
bluewater
(5,376 posts)2. Ways to fund the bill? Roll back all the tRump Tax cuts.
Boom.
Done.
It's that simple.