In @PunchbowlNews AM:

We make the case today that the Dem opposition to the infrastructure bill is weak.

Criticism 1: from @AOC -- the money isnt enough for an 8-year horizon

Criticism 2: Northeastern Dems want SALT caps repealed.
@PunchbowlNews @AOC SALT opposition is weakening.

The push started out as “No Salt, No deal.”

Now it’s:

"We could not vote for a bill that has a meaningful tax impact on our constituents unless it restores SALT deduction relief to our middle-class families.” Letter here bit.ly/3fHzxFW
“Meaningful tax impact” isn’t “No SALT, no deal.” How do you define meaningful? Is raising the corporate rate from 21% to 25% meaningful?
And do you think that Pallone -- the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee -- is going to vote against a package that includes the most significant green investment in decades? Hard to see that happening.

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6 Apr
Hi.

We at @PunchbowlNews have a lot of reporting and thoughts about the parliamentarian/reconciliation stuff.
@PunchbowlNews We have heard Schumer describe the parl's ruling. Everyone is now waiting to see what the ruling says.

There will be a lot of discussion on what it means and how it would work. Schumer’s office even nods to this in its statement: “some parameters still need to be worked out.”
@PunchbowlNews Republicans, for their part, are withholding official comment on this until they work through it as well. Privately, senior GOP officials are telling us the ruling doesn’t say exactly what Democrats are saying it does. So there will be a lot on this in the coming days.
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2 Apr
If you all will allow, I have a few quick observations after another deadly day in the Capitol.

— Todays the 92nd day of 2021, and 2 of those days have been deadly in the Capitol Horrible.

(cont.)
I work in the Capitol pretty much every day. Sometimes, i’ll be walking through the Ohio Clock Corridor — right outside the Senate — or Stat Hall and i’ll remember that that was where the insurrectionists marched through on Jan. 6 when the Capitol was attacked
That barricade where today’s attack happened is a pretty well-traveled entrance to the complex. People walk by foot from Union Station to the Capitol all the time and walk in that way. I did pre covid every day. Another place we’ll associate with a horrible attack
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2 Apr
🚨🚨Capitol staff just got this text message

I’m in the Capitol and will keep everyone posted here.
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2 Apr
In @PunchbowlNews this AM — Let Pelosi be Pelosi

We’re 2 days into @JoeBiden push for a multi-trillion $ infrastructure bill. We don’t have anything even close to resembling legislative language. Yet so much has become clear about the politics and legislative climate in DC.
@PunchbowlNews @JoeBiden 1) Biden, who ran on the idea that the “fever” plaguing Republicans during the Trump era would break once he took office, is yet again facing unyielding opposition from the GOP on this infrastructure plan.
@PunchbowlNews @JoeBiden This will likely be the second major legislative package that Biden will have to pass without a scintilla of Republican support.
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31 Mar
We at @punchbowlnews have a lot of reporting on infrastructure. relief. Lot of fluid dynamics as we embark on this epic adventure to pass yet *another* several trillion $ bill.

1) @SpeakerPelosi said on a caucus call this wk she wants the bill through the House by July 4.
That is going to be really hard. there are 92 days and just six legislative weeks between now and then. And this isnt like the American Rescue Package, for which they had a framework. This is a brand new bill, contentious policies, regionalism etc. Doable, but tricky
2) The bill that Biden proposed is a proposal. Congress isn't going to take it as is. They have their own ideas -- many of them will track closely with Biden, some of them may not. But ya gotta remember what Biden says isn't gospel. @RonaldKlain and co presumably understand that
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30 Mar
>@PunchbowlNews this AM:

Will moderate Dems get a spine?

A pair of northeastern Democratic lawmakers say they won’t support any Biden tax proposal unless it repeals the cap on state and local taxes.
@PunchbowlNews @RepTomSuozzi put out a statement Monday and Rep. @RepJoshG told Axios he would not consider a Biden tax proposal unless it repealed the SALT caps.
@PunchbowlNews @RepTomSuozzi @RepJoshG The pathway here for Gottheimer and Suozzi is pretty clear: If they stick to this position and truly decline any and all entreaties, and they recruit three or four more members to join with them, they can have an impact because of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) tight margin.
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