Thread by @JakeSherman

☀️Punchbowl AM

→ 10 Rs wrote a letter to @JoeBiden proposing a pared back Covid relief bill. Ds spent all day dismissing it as half baked and as evidence Rs were not serious.

Biden invited them to WH. That means @SenatorCollins will get a WH mtg before @aoc and @SpeakerPelosi

@JoeBiden @SenatorCollins @AOC @SpeakerPelosi → As Biden huddles with Collins and Co., Democrats have to figure out how to pass a budget and assemble a Covid-relief package. They have to thread the needle between the two poles in their caucus: @SenSanders and @Sen_JoeManchin.

@JoeBiden @SenatorCollins @AOC @SpeakerPelosi @SenSanders @Sen_JoeManchin Progressive Democrats often get frustrated with Manchin, but he represents a vote that the party needs in an evenly divided Senate -- a vote as important as Sanders or Warren.

@JoeBiden @SenatorCollins @AOC @SpeakerPelosi @SenSanders @Sen_JoeManchin Dems have to see if they can squeeze a $15 minimum wage in the bill. And now, they have to also figure out if it's worth waiting for Republicans to get all of this done.

@JoeBiden @SenatorCollins @AOC @SpeakerPelosi @SenSanders @Sen_JoeManchin → Republicans in the House are deeply split. You have @GOPLeader visiting and snapping photos with Donald Trump. @RepKinzinger has started an effort that plainly suggests the party has lost its way.

@JoeBiden @SenatorCollins @AOC @SpeakerPelosi @SenSanders @Sen_JoeManchin @GOPLeader @RepKinzinger Meanwhile, a huge chunk of the party is suggesting that @Liz_Cheney get booted from the leadership over her vote to impeach Trump.

@JoeBiden @SenatorCollins @AOC @SpeakerPelosi @SenSanders @Sen_JoeManchin @GOPLeader @RepKinzinger @Liz_Cheney McCarthy asked Republicans not to snipe at each other, and @mattgaetz flew to Wyoming to campaign against Cheney. @mtgreenee continues to say outlandish things. McCarthy said he would meet with her about her behavior, and Trump called her to celebrate her.

@JoeBiden @SenatorCollins @AOC @SpeakerPelosi @SenSanders @Sen_JoeManchin @GOPLeader @RepKinzinger @Liz_Cheney @mattgaetz @mtgreenee → Republicans in the Senate voted en masse that the impeachment of Trump was unconstitutional. Some have suggested going to court to halt the proceedings. Yet Trump fired his entire impeachment legal team because they wouldn’t argue the election was stolen.

@JoeBiden @SenatorCollins @AOC @SpeakerPelosi @SenSanders @Sen_JoeManchin @GOPLeader @RepKinzinger @Liz_Cheney @mattgaetz @mtgreenee Senate Republicans won’t vote to convict him -- they’ve made that clear -- but now they’ll be forced to defend him as he argues that he won an election he lost during a trial that has absolutely nothing to do with that.