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Sounds like the PM needs to get sent (back) to agile training.
The team agreed on taking on X story points. That involves the work as described on the tasks.
Even if it's 5 minutes after the sprint started, if it's extra work, then either this stuff that wasn't mentioned before isn't going to get done or something else that's a comparable amount of story points should be pulled off the sprint.
That kind of feedback is what I and my teams have given over the years where I've experienced similar POs / PMs. It can be awkward at times, making it seem as if the team doesn't want to do the work, but it's either that or essentially keeping enabling bad behavior.
Also, keep this stuff in mind if you ever have a post-mortem on a project. If there are ever any "why were these milestones missed?" questions then this could be used as an argument, especially if any additional information is documented on Jira tasks after the fact.
Ask for trade offs.
“That’s x points. Which item on the sprint can deprioritize/move out to next sprint?”
Alternatively, if it changes things and it can’t be done…”that’s out of scope, but we can task that change out for next sprint.”
And since you’ve said it keeps happening…why? Any particular trends? Is the PM getting last minute changes from someone else? Personally, I push back on behalf of devs often. And I try as much as possible to sync up on goals early and often.