Good Wednesday morning, I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, sponsored by Charter Communications.

And I'm Jake Sherman. The Senate passed its tax bill 5148 last night and now it heads back to the House for a final vote after a snafoo.

The new tax bill joke, the bill's so nice, they vote on it twice.

President Donald Trump said there'll be a news conference at the White House at approximately 1 p.m. Playbook's advice, keep it short, Mr. President. They have a government to fund. After 20 years of trying to get a tax bill through Congress, Paul Ryan is doing a major victory lap this morning. He'll be on ABC's Good Morning America, CBS is this morning, NBC's The Today Show,

and Fox and Friends on Fox News Channel. We are three days away from a government shutdown.

Here's the not-so-surprising update. Everything is changing by the hour, it seems. So let's review.

On Tuesday morning, House Republicans plan to pair the $81 billion supplemental spending bill with a stopgap spending bill to keep the government open through January, and the Defense Department funded through the end of the year.

They also planned a vote on extending a key section of FISA, the federal surveillance law.

But by Tuesday evening, the GOP had settled on a new

plan, three votes, one to fund the government, one to approve the disaster money, and another

to extend FISA. Of course, nothing is finalized at this point, but nothing is ever finalized,

right? Here's the tough part, as we explained yesterday. The Senate is expected to combine these and add Alexander Murray, language that bolsters Obamacare and then send it back to the House. This caused an uproar yesterday in the House Republican universe. Anti-abortion lawmakers and anti-Obomacare folks are upset that they'll have to vote on this package. So what will the House do?

Whatever they can get the votes for. But many people we spoke to said they feel like they'd have the votes to ignore the Senate package and send back a three-week, clean, simple, stop-gap bill

with nothing else attached to it. This would be a good win for Paul Ryan. Why? He'd be seen as

sticking it to the Senate, which, if we're

being honest, is what most House lawmakers care most about anyway. Here's a classic one for you

in the category of Texans love Texas. Texas Republicans, many of whom have long railed against

and voted against disaster funding, want even more money for disaster relief in their state.

And some of them even asked for money to be earmarked for Texas specifically.

So let's go around the tax reform horn one last time. Okay, well, maybe.

Bernie Becker is reporting that confusion and chaos are ahead as new tax rules take immediate effect and payroll companies

are bracing for confusion as they figure out new withholding rules that affect millions of

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