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Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing.

And I'm Jake Sherman. So this week is going to be crazy, really crazy, the kind of crazy that only in December in Washington brings. Let's start with today.

The Electoral College's electors vote in their states. The Congressional Research Service describes it as each

delegation meeting separately in their respective states and then electors vote by paper ballot, casting one

vote for the president and one for the VP. The Wall Street Journal editorial board has had enough.

They're fed up. They say Trump's challenge is over. Also, we're in the final week we think of the

legislative session for the year.

Government funding runs dry Friday, so appropriators and leadership are going to spend the week

working toward a deal to fund the government either for the rest of the fiscal year, an omnibus,

or a stopgap bill that would last sometime until March.

But they're also trying to line up a COVID relief bill as well.

Late last week,

the leadership started to put together the quote-unquote non-controversial parts of that bill.

But we're going to need to see some Nancy Pelosi Mitch McConnell talks before we believe

anything is real. Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin spoke last night for 30 minutes.

Manuchin hasn't really been relevant to these talks since before the election.

And on another track, the bipartisan 908 group, the name lines up with the bill's price tag,

is going to unveil its bill at 4 p.m.

As Nolan McCaskill and Burgess Everett reported Sunday, the group is splitting its bill

in half. One would be a $748 billion piece of coronavirus relief with less controversial items like

school and health care. The other would marry $160 billion in money for local governments

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