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11 Oct, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Few things from playbook this AM

Trump appears to be living in lala land — as stated on @MariaBartiromo’s fox news show — as he said @SpeakerPelosi is the obstacle to a deal Bc she won’t sign some document. (I have idea what he’s talking about) Image
Rs are the issue of course. @SpeakerPelosi wants a deal, as does Washington’s most eager man, @stevenmnuchin1
PELOSI put out a new dear colleague with more problems about the gops stimulus offer. Image
Will pelosi and mnuchin keep talking when the senate has almost no interest in this compromise? Admin says they have 20r senators for this bill. Questionable counting. Image
Larry Kudlow needs to talk to leg affairs and get a rundown on recent congressional history. Image
Who knows where this ends up. The end. Image

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13 Oct
Playbook this morning: BIDEN’S CABINET

Don’t listen to the people who are saying they aren’t thinking about who Biden will tap for his Cabinet

-- CHIEF OF STAFF: @RonaldKlain and Steve Richetti. Klain the favorite.
@RonaldKlain -- SECRETARY OF STATE: @ABlinken, @AmbassadorRice, @ChrisCoons and @ChrisMurphyCT
@RonaldKlain @ABlinken @AmbassadorRice @ChrisCoons @ChrisMurphyCT -- SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: @micheleflournoy

-- A.G.: @DougJones

-- TREASURY SECRETARY: Lael Brainard

— TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY: @ericgarcetti (This would be a big job in an administration that will certainly push for big infrastructure spending in the first quarter of 2021.)
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10 Oct
Playbook: HERE IS A REMARKABLE FACT: @realDonaldTrump and @SpeakerPelosi haven’t spoken in nearly one year. Their last one-on-one conversation was Oct. 16, 2019 -- they had a brief interaction at the State of the Union, before PELOSI ripped the president’s speech up.
In that time period, the nation has been turned upside down, shaken to the core by an unrelenting virus that has killed more 200,000 and hobbled a once vibrant economy.
BUT THROUGH IT ALL, PELOSI and TRUMP have remained distant, unified only in their distaste for one another.

ALL OF THE SUDDEN, though, their incentives are aligned: they both want a massive Covid deal in an unthinkably quick timeframe.
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9 Oct
PLAYBOOK PM — COVID RELIEF DETAILS

The tension: W.H. now desperate for a deal, led by Washington’s most eager man, @stevenmnuchin1

MCCONNELL said it’s unlikely anything will get done before Election Day.
@stevenmnuchin1 SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS and Hill sources tell us that they plan to work through this weekend, all next week and possibly next weekend to get a deal.
@stevenmnuchin1 WHO KNOWS WHY TRUMP WANTS THIS. He may want noise to fill the silence. Maybe he wants a bump in the stock market. We’re not mood readers or psychiatrists or psychics. This deal could’ve been cut 90 times between May and now.
Read 9 tweets
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9 Oct
Playbook this AM — ON COVID RELIEF

TRUMP ADMIN HAS PROVEN the 18 acres on which the WH sits are a logic-free zone. Don’t waste your time trying to make sense of anything that comes out of or goes on there, bc it’s a fool’s errand&you’ll just end up with a headache &clenched jaw
TRUMP has spent the last few days vacillating between 2 different, irreconcilable poles: not wanting a Covid relief bill, because it includes a “bailout” of blue states, and wanting a “big deal,” which will definitely include a bailout of blue states. Square that circle. Or dont.
SO, LET’S NOT FOCUS ON WHETHER @stevenmnuchin1 and @SpeakerPelosi will strike some sort of compromise, because it’s ultimately unknowable. We’ve described the hurdles -- a huge money difference, policy differences, etc. -- between the two parties at the moment.
Read 14 tweets
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8 Oct
Playbook PM:

OK EVERYONE, REPEAT AFTER US: Stimulus talks are in the same place they have been since July.
THE TWO SIDES have not coalesced around a top-line figure, legislative language or any of the component parts of an agreement. The White House is divided on a deal, Hill Republicans are all over the place, and time is running out.
This may be the longest negotiations we’ve seen outside of health care reform in 2009-2010 -- and yet so little has changed over the last 10 or so weeks.
Read 7 tweets
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7 Oct
Playbook this AM: Trump’s ‘Big Lebowski’ moment
HAVE YOU SEEN “THE BIG LEBOWSKI”? WALTER - played by John Goodman - is not a big fan of DONNY, played by Steve Buscemi. During one of their bowling scenes, WALTER says to DONNY: “You have no frame of reference, Donny. You’re like a child who wanders in in the middle of a movie”
DONNY, in this case, bears more than a passing resemblance to President DONALD TRUMP. HIS TWEETS TUESDAY about the Covid stimulus talks seem like he’s awaking from a monthslong slumber, unbriefed by his advisers and unaware of his surroundings as he enters the fray.
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