Good Tuesday morning, I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing sponsored by Charter Communications.

And I'm Anna Palmer. Tax reform is on the floor in both chambers today. And in all likelihood, it's going to pass.

And President Donald Trump will be able to sign it before Christmas. Republicans will get their holiday season signing ceremony where they'll be able to

tout their present to the American people, a tax cut. We've got a fun first in playbook this

morning with a video montage of Speaker Paul Ryan over the years talking about reforming the tax

code. One fun moment, a clip of a 28-year-old Ryan on C-SPAN as a congressman

elect in 1998, saying, our tax system is punishing all those qualities that make America great.

How Trumpy. With tax reform looking like it's getting over the finish line, all eyes are now

squarely on the funding fight that's going to happen at the end of the week. Remember, the government is slated to shut

down Friday. Here's some news from inside the Republican's government funding strategy.

The GOP, which controls the House and Senate, has an extremely intense four days ahead. They have to

fund government and patch the children's health program by Friday. But in

addition, as our colleague Sung Min Kim pointed out on Twitter yesterday, they have a ton of other

stuff to do. They need to renew a key part of surveillance law, pass a massive disaster supplemental

spending bill, a veteran's bill, and waive pays you go rules from Medicare changes. Here's what the

process will look like

as of now. The House is going to pass several bills, one with the relatively popular stuff,

keeping government open and patching the Children's Health Insurance Program, and another one,

which will include a six-month fix of a key surveillance law. It's not yet clear how they'll

handle the disaster supplemental, which provides $81 billion in relief

for storms that slam Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico.

Here's the big question.

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