The Playbook Podcast

Biden's next big legislative push is starting to take shape. Here's what you need to know about his infrastructure plans.

A debate’s heating up over one of the closest House races in U.S. history: More than four months after the election, Democrats are dead serious about yanking back the Iowa seat Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks won by just six votes. 

Biden's semantic battle du jour: whether to use the word “crisis” to describe the thousands of migrants streaming to the southern border during a still-raging pandemic. Plus: The president and VP meet with Asian American leaders in Georgia today. 

We have an exclusive look at what Biden's chief of staff told powerful progressives about where the administration’s headed — on immigration, taxing the rich, the minimum wage and more.

Republicans will argue in a letter today not only that Biden’s move was unsanctioned by Congress — but that it exacerbated the border crisis.

Here’s how the party’s progressive base is framing it for Senate Dems: Get rid of the filibuster, or allow Republicans to disenfranchise millions of Black and brown voters who put President Joe Biden in office.  

President Biden is about to come under a mountain of pressure from both parties to fix the situation at the border — and address immigration overall.

It might’ve been the most poignant moment yet of Biden’s seven-odd weeks in office. Plus: the latest on the spending bill that finally became law yesterday, and a scoop on the Trump-GOP fundraising drama.

It didn’t happen with Covid relief. But President Joe Biden says he really, really wants to go bipartisan on infrastructure. Here's why that's even less likely than GOP stimulus cooperation.

If you’re still confused about where Joe Manchin is on the filibuster, you’re far from alone. Plus: The House is teeing up the massive Covid relief bill for final approval today.