The Playbook Podcast
POLITICO’s Jack Blanchard and Dasha Burns bring their fresh insight, analysis and reporting to the biggest story driving the day in the nation’s capital.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 6 minutes
- Episodes
- 1944
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Oct. 20, 2021: Breaking down Biden’s latest Build Back Better plan
President Joe Biden began pitching lawmakers on an outline for his Build Back Better plan Tuesday night. The proposal, pegged in the range of $1.75 to $1.9 trillion, is far from a done deal: Moderate…
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Wed 20 Oct 2021
Oct. 19, 2021: The carbon tax makes a comeback
An unusual confluence of factors have brought back a climate-change fighting policy that many Democrats saw as politically toxic: the carbon tax.
While the idea has long been the favored tool of econ…
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Tue 19 Oct 2021
Oct. 18, 2021: It’s crunch time (again) on Capitol Hill
Congress returns from recess today with 13 days until Speaker Nancy Pelosi's new Halloween deadline to pass the party’s package of infrastructure and social services legislation. One problem: The lat…
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Mon 18 Oct 2021
Oct. 15, 2021: DCCC edges out NRCC cash haul
Fox News’ Paul Steinhauser writes that House Democrats have the upper hand over House Republicans in fundraising ahead of the 2022 midterms. A quick look at the numbers:
In September: DCCC raised $…
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Fri 15 Oct 2021
Oct. 14, 2021: Jan. 6 committee meets Trump’s stone wall
It’s a story we’ve become all too familiar with since Democrats took control of the House in 2019: Lawmakers issue subpoenas to Trump White House officials — who then stonewall at his behest.
Today…
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Thu 14 Oct 2021
Oct. 13, 2021: Scoop — Manchin-Sinema split vexes the White House
So what’s the state of negotiations between the White House and Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema?
The talks have been shrouded in mystery, but we have some fresh details we can share this morning.
More…
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Wed 13 Oct 2021
Oct. 12, 2021: The next legislative pile-up is coming
With the exception of today — when the House briefly returns to clear the Senate-passed, short-term debt ceiling stopgap — Congress is out on recess this week after lawmakers kicked the can on their …
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Tue 12 Oct 2021
Oct. 8, 2021: Will endorsement-happy Trump cost GOP the Senate?
A shouting match erupted on the Senate floor after the vote to delay the debt limit crisis for two months. Sens. John Thune and Mitt Romney confronted Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer after he la…
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Fri 08 Oct 2021
Oct. 7, 2021: Why McConnell backed down
Donald Trump and Sen. Elizabeth Warren actually agree on something: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell backed down Wednesday when he offered Democrats an extension of the debt ceiling until Decem…
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Thu 07 Oct 2021
Oct. 6, 2021: What’s Chuck’s Plan B?
Republicans are set to filibuster Democrats’ latest bid to raise the debt ceiling today, just as Mitch McConnell has been saying they’d do since this summer. What is Chuck Schumer's Plan B?
The major…
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Wed 06 Oct 2021
Oct. 4, 2021: How Democrats could still get it done
Now that the dust has settled from last week’s drama on the Hill, let’s take stock of where things stand with President Joe Biden's core legislative agenda.
Oct. 31 is the new Sept. 30: Congress exte…
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Mon 04 Oct 2021
Another big day for Biden’s presidency: What to watch
So much for that make-or-break Thursday vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. Speaker Nancy Pelosi delayed the roll call just before 11 p.m. after a flurry of late-night meetings trying to stri…
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Fri 01 Oct 2021
Sept. 29, 2021: T-minus 24 hours — The view from the W.H.
Tuesday was the day it became clear either:
A) President Joe Biden's legislative agenda is about to implode
or
B) Biden made serious progress toward a deal to salvage his agenda.
The public evidence …
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Wed 29 Sep 2021
Sept. 28, 2021: Pelosi and the Squad brace for a showdown
The Democrats’ “two-track” process is no more. After weeks of linking passage of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure package (BIF) to the party’s larger reconciliation bill, Speaker Nancy Pelosi told he…
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Tue 28 Sep 2021
Sept. 27, 2021: ‘Everything is hanging by a thread’
Congress is three days out from a critical vote on a key plank of the president’s agenda — a massive $1.2 trillion infrastructure package (BIF) — and President Joe Biden and House Democratic leaders …
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Mon 27 Sep 2021
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Global Insider's Ryan Heath runs all over New York, capturing the madness of UNGA’s kickoff, accompanied by his sidekick, producer Olivia Reingold. Hear from Ryan’s go-to …
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Sun 26 Sep 2021
Sept. 24, 2021: Pelosi plans to bring reconciliation to the floor next week
Buckle up. That was the advice from Capitol Hill late Thursday night as news got out that Speaker Nancy Pelosi privately told her committee chairs that she does, in fact, intend to bring the reconcil…
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Fri 24 Sep 2021
Sept. 23, 2021: Inside the room of Biden’s talks with Dems
Here’s the most important development that came from President Joe Biden's five hours of meetings with 23 legislators in the Oval Office on Wednesday, according to a senior White House official: “Mod…
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Thu 23 Sep 2021
Sept. 22, 2021: Pelosi’s toughest whip campaign
Can the House get to 218 on the BIF?
That’s the big question on Capitol Hill after Speaker Nancy Pelosi made clear Tuesday her team would not delay a Monday vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill…
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Wed 22 Sep 2021
Sept. 21, 2021: Double trouble for Biden
Internal Democratic discord has wounded President Joe Biden’s massive social spending plan, raising the prospect that the package could stall out, shrink dramatically — or even fail altogether.
Myria…
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Tue 21 Sep 2021
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