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Good Tuesday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing.

And I'm Anna Palmer. Happy December. There are 10 days until the government runs out of funding.

This is new. There has been discussion in the White House of excluding the following Hill Republicans from the White House Christmas Party this year.

Senator Susan Collins, Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski, Ben Sasse, and representatives,

Adam Kingsinger, and Liz Cheney. We're told this has been reversed, that they may get an

invite, but this has dominated West Wing chatter in the last few days. The Post has a look at the extensive plans for White

House Christmas parties this year, despite the ongoing pandemic and CDC advising Americans to limit

gatherings. The Senate came back into session Monday evening. All the chatter was about the impending

confirmation process in the next presidency, which, if you're living on planet Earth,

with the rest of us will include Joe Biden as president and Kamala Harris as VP.

With the Biden presidency comes a whole new host of power dynamics, namely Republicans

are going to have to get accustomed to living with the president of another party, and we're

watching that happen in real time.

We picked up on some interesting nuggets, both on our

own, in Gaggles and in the Hill Pool, that will help enhance your understanding of the Biden

administration, how it's putting together its cabinet, and how power will flow in Washington.

Near a Tandon, Biden's nominee for OMB, is the battering ram. It's too early to declare Tandon's nomination to be the head

of OMB dead, but she is taking a lot of incoming. John Cornyn said Tandon is radioactive, and it was a

misstep by the Biden team to nominate her. John Thune, the number two Senate Republicans,

said she's been very partisan in her assessment of Republican senators, presumably

referring to tweets about Republican senators over the past couple of years.

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