Good Friday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing, sponsored by Stop the Hit Coalition.

And I'm Jake Sherman. Here's where we are. The government's going to shut down at midnight.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis resigned essentially saying that after four decades of leadership at the highest levels of the military, he has made the determination he cannot represent the president's worldview.

The president is pulling the military out of Syria and mowing a plan to withdraw thousands of U.S. troops from Afghanistan against the wishes of military brass and policy makers.

The market is essentially in a free-for-all. The S&P is down nearly 17% erasing a meaningful

portion of the gain since the election. We've got a first in playbook. Nancy Pelosi will sit down with MSNBC's Joy Reid on January

4th at her alma mater, Trinity Washington University for a town hall that will air at 10 p.m.

that evening. Here's what we expect today in the Senate. It will gavel in at noon today and at some point thereafter

will begin consideration of the stopgap funding bill that the House passed. It will fail in the

Senate. There is zero doubt about that. There is a chance the Senate will keep the $8 billion

in disaster money in the bill. But that doesn't solve the core problem that the president had.

He wants more border money.

At the moment, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi have zero incentive to negotiate with Republicans.

Schumer and Pelosi were in agreement with Mitch McConnell that they needed to pass a short-term

bill until February 8th.

So now it's incumbent upon Republicans who decided to abandon that plan to figure out how to keep government open or reopen it when it's closed.

Right now, there are a few off-ramps that we see in no particular order.

Disaster aid only. First, Speaker Paul Ryan, who was in the last days of his tenure in Congress,

could put the Senate past stop gap with disaster relief and no increase in border money on the floor.

There were around 400 lawmakers who voted yesterday. We imagine that a large majority would vote to

pass that bill. Another option would be an uptick in border funds. If Ryan won't put that on the

floor a possibility considering the backlash to legislation without an uptick in

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