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4 Nov, 35 tweets, 9 min read
1) BIF/BBB thread for Thursday.

PT - House Dems are in their whip meeting right now. Chairs are giving an update on their sections of the BBB.
2) File away for later reference.
3) So, an update from the Speaker around 11am or so.
4) An update.
5) Drifting from Thursday or Friday to possibly the weekend.
6) Fwiw.
7) Fluidity.
8) Contrasting outlooks from Rep.Dingell & Rep. Kaine 👇🏾

FT - Dem MI Rep Dingell on where they stand with social spending and infrastructure bills: “I hoping you guys don’t have plans for the next couple of days.”
9) More W&M Committee Chair Neal.
10) BBB tonight, BIF tomorrow ? Speaker Pelosi sounds “hopeful”.
11) Reiteration of point 10, a bit more context though.
12) Reporting consistent on this.
13) Sure, why not ?
14) Interesting.
15) And so it goes on.
16) FT - More Pelosi: "I think many of you know I was very unhappy about not passing the BIF last week."

Oh yeah we do. We wrote about that last Friday…
17) From Hoyer this afternoon.
18) Again from Maj Ldr Hoyer 👇🏾
19) 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
20) State of play…
21) FT - Ed Case, Blue Dog Dem, told me he hasn’t changed his position: There must be a score from CBO before he can vote for $1.75T bill

“Everything is in the letter,” he said, referring to letter he &
4 other moderates signed.

Asked if he changed his position, he said: “No.”
22) FT - “They told us they were not going to move this til they were….have 50 votes in the Senate. They also told us they were going to vote on BIF until Sept. 27. And here are they are," he said, referring the shorthand of the bipartisan infrastructure framework.”
23) Follow from Cuellar ☝🏾
24) 🧵on the Sh*tshow inside a 👇🏾
25) Maybe Yes. Maybe No.
26) Light is on.
27) From a bit earlier 👇🏾
28) FT - Jayapal on on it the Hse will vote tonight on infrastructure/social spending bills: “Sometimes people just need a little bit of time to get themselves comfortable. And hopefully that's what's happening and we'll all be comfortable by the end of the night.”
29) Making the sausage 🧵
30) Making the sausage 🧵 (Part 2 ).
31) “President Biden is not advocating specifically for a vote tonight, but is calling a variety of members asking them to vote yes when it comes. Biden has confidence in…. Pelosi to determine whether it's tonight or tomorrow, based on the count….”

Biden’s soft sell approach.
32) The plan !
33) This may or not be consistent with “The Plan” ☝🏾
34) Seems consistent with “ The Plan”.
35) End Scene.
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