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Congress would love to be celebrating today. but they find themselves in a web of interwoven standoffs where nobody is blinking. i'm thinking like reservoir dogs. and if they don't figure a way out, the entire biden legislative agenda could fall apart. because deadlines to avoid a government shutdown and a potential default on government debt are around the corner. as congress returns to capitol hill, here's where we are right now. starting with the house. one week from today is the self-imposed deadline speaker pelosi set to take up the bipartisan infrastructure deal. but the progressive cauc...

Holding out support on the infrastructure part of it to make sure they get everything they need in the reconciliation bill. moderates wanting to make sure they get the infrastructure bill across the line. they're worried that the progressives won't support it if they get everything else they want on the other side. so you are in this standoff here, and the person who has got to figure out a way out of it is speaker pelosi. she has been steadfast that she is with the progressives on this. she wants to vote on both of these things, but she wants to do budget resolution first, then pass both of t...