带走里克·克莱因
在总统任期的这个阶段，权衡是典型的——理论上，这代表了各种交易乔·拜登总统渴望削减开支。
但是，随着众议院和参议院民主党领袖周三在白宫与拜登挤在一起，他们面对一个奇怪的现象正好赶上秋天的开始。几周的争吵已经离开了他们的大部分管理议程即使苛刻的最后期限越来越近，也没有接近成为现实重要项目半途而废。
议会规则和简单数学的结合已经受阻现实的道路为了通过投票权和移居改革。至于仍可能成为法律的东西，进步人士以前视之为谈判场所的巨大价格标签正在被削减而且不需要获得额外的选票。
众议院领导人现在认识到这是现实。下周一参议院已经通过的两党1.2万亿美元基础设施一揽子计划的投票已经确定，不会进行。令许多人沮丧的是在左边。
这打破了进步人士的长期承诺，即只有在该法案与更大的、仅由民主党人提出的提案“同步”时，他们才会批准该法案。拜登本人臭名昭著地表示，“我不会签署它”，如果两党法案没有更大的表弟，他也可以制定法律，但只能走回头路。
尽管如此，9月底为政府提供资金的最后期限和10月底的债务上限还有进一步的延长复杂的民主党计划。复杂且重叠的谈判的风险迅速上升，尽管它们的目标清单持续缩减。
民主党人有理由抱怨说，他们在执政方面几乎没有得到共和党人的帮助，共和党人现在坚持不提供选票来提高债务上限的承诺。
结果是民主党人又一次，与自己谈判。这种动态可能会让失败变得更加痛苦。
与...的关系阿维·哈珀
国会两院的民主党领袖也加入了这一行列大声说出条件在南部边境。
纽约州参议院多数党领袖查克·舒默告诉记者，他正在拜访总统停止驱逐并以冠状病毒大流行的威胁为由，停止使用特朗普政府的顽固边境政策，该政策允许寻求庇护者在他们的诉求没有得到听取的情况下被拒绝。
舒默说:“我敦促拜登总统停止这些驱逐行动，并在我们的南部边境结束这项第42章政策。“我们不能继续推行这些无视我们难民法的仇恨和排外的特朗普政策。”
议长南希·佩洛西周一晚上发表了一份声明，概述了她所说的”虐待的报告德克萨斯州德尔里奥的海地移民。
佩洛西说:“所有寻求庇护的移民都必须受到法律和基本礼仪的对待。"任何侵略或暴力行为都是不能容忍的，必须进行调查。"
白宫新闻秘书珍·普萨基叫做图像称国土安全部将进行调查，但这只能解决民主党人担忧的一个方面，因为这与边境的海地移民有关。行政部门保持坚定并继续使用第42章在移民提出庇护申请之前驱逐他们。
小费梅格·坎宁安
随着初选季节的升温，共和党参议员候选人试图将自己与竞争对手区分开来，共和党正在继续分裂。
前密苏里州州长和参议院候选人埃里克·格雷滕斯周一说他不会投赞成票如果肯塔基州参议员米奇·麦康奈尔在2022年当选，他将成为参议院共和党领袖。格雷滕斯说，麦康奈尔“积极参与反对特朗普总统和MAGA运动的工作。”前总统唐纳德·特朗普还没有在密苏里参议院竞选中获得支持华尔街日报周末报道称，特朗普一直在讨论支持某人除了麦康奈尔中期选举后竞选共和党参议院领袖。
“我对此没有任何反应，”麦康奈尔说告诉记者周二在国会大厦。
美国广播公司新闻联系到已经获得前总统支持的共和党参议院竞选团队，但只得到一个回应。北卡罗来纳州众议员泰德·巴德的参议院竞选:他们的主要焦点是赢得竞选，以确保共和党领袖是多数党领袖，而不是少数党领袖。
Shrinking Biden agenda collides with higher stakes: The Note
The TAKE withRick Klein
Trade-offs are typical at this stage of a presidency -- and, in theory, represent thekinds of dealsPresident Joe Biden has longed to cut.
But with House and Senate Democratic leaders huddling with Biden at the White House Wednesday, theyconfront a strange phenomenonin time for the start of fall.Weeks of wranglinghas left most of theirgoverning agendano closer to becoming reality, even as harsh deadlines draw closer andsignificant itemsgo by the wayside.
A combination of parliamentary rules and simple math have already blockedrealistic pathsfor passingvoting-rightsandimmigrationreform. As for what might still become law, the mammoth price tags that progressives previously saw as a negotiating floorare being whittled downfurther without necessarily picking up additional votes.
House leaders now recognize that as reality. Next Monday's vote on the bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure package that's already passed the Senate is set and not moving,to the dismay of manyon the left.
That breaks the longstanding pledge to progressives to only approve that bill if it's in "tandem" with the far larger, Democrat-only proposal. Biden himself infamously said "I'm not signing it" if the bipartisan bill doesn't have a bigger cousin he could also make law, only to walk that back.
For all that give, deadlines over funding the government at the end of September and the debt ceiling at the end of October have furthercomplicated Democrats' plans. The stakes of complicated and overlapping negotiations have risen rapidly, even as their list of goals has continued to shrink.
Democrats can rightly complain that they're getting little to no help in governing from Republicans, who are now holding fast to a commitment to not provide votes to raise the debt limit.
The upshot is that Democrats are, once again,negotiating with themselves. That dynamic could make losing sting even more.
The RUNDOWN withAveri Harper
Democratic leaders in both chambers of Congress are joining the chorus of voicescalling out the conditionsat the southern border.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters he is calling on the presidentto halt expulsionsof Haitian migrants and end the use of a holdover Trump administration border policy that allows asylum seekers to be turned away without having their claims heard, citing the threat of the coronavirus pandemic.
"I urge president Biden to put a stop to these expulsions and to end this Title 42 policy at our southern border," Schumer said. "We cannot continue these hateful and xenophobic Trump policies that disregard our refugee laws."
Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a statement Monday night outlining what she called "reports of mistreatment" of Haitian migrants in Del Rio, Texas.
"All migrants seeking asylum must be treated in accordance with the law and with basic decency," said Pelosi. "Any acts of aggression or violence cannot be tolerated and must be investigated."
White House press secretary Jen Psakicalled the imagesof border agents with migrants at the river "horrific" and said the Department of Homeland Security would pursue an investigation, but that only addresses one aspect of Democrats' concerns as it relates to Haitian migrants at the border. The administrationremains steadfastin its plan to return migrants to Haiti and continued usage of Title 42 to expel migrants before they make asylum claims.
The TIP withMeg Cunningham
The Republican Party is continuing to splinter as primary season heats up and GOP Senate candidates seek to differentiate themselves from their competitors.
Ex-Missouri governor and Senate candidate Eric Greitens said Monday thathe would not vote forKentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell to be the Senate GOP leader should he be elected in 2022. Greitens said that McConnell is "actively engaged in working against President Trump and the MAGA movement." Former PresidentDonald Trumphas yet to offer an endorsement in the Missouri Senate race and theWall Street Journalreported over the weekend that Trump has been discussing backing someoneother than McConnellfor GOP Senate leader after the midterms.
"I don't have any reaction to that," McConnelltold reportersTuesday in the Capitol.
ABC News reached out to GOP Senate campaigns that have already nabbed endorsements from the former president, but only received one response. North Carolina Rep. Ted Budd's Senate campaign: that their primary focus is winning the campaign to make sure that the GOP leader is majority leader, not minority leader.
