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Good morning, everyone. I'm Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza. It's Monday, December 4th. Here's what's

driving the day. The White House is upping the urgency over aid to Ukraine. In a letter to Congress

released this morning, the White House is blunt. We are out of money to support Ukraine

in this fight. The letter from Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young to all four

congressional leaders uses the most alarming language yet mustered by the Biden administration

in its attempt to squeeze more money for Ukraine out of Congress. I want to be clear,

Young writes, without congressional action, by the end of the year, we will run out of resources to

procure more weapons and equipment for Ukraine and to provide equipment from U.S. military stocks.

There is no magical pot of funding available to meet this moment. We are out of money and nearly

out of time. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has said the chamber will vote as soon as this

week on the $106 billion Biden supplemental, which also includes funds for Israel, Taiwan, and

border security. But that border security language demanded by Republicans,

and which has been the subject of talks by a bipartisan group of six senators, has not yet been

finalized. The other thing we're watching this week, will Donald Trump be regagged?

It's been two weeks since a federal appeals court heard arguments about the gag order issued by Judge Tanya S. Chutkin in the Trump election's subversion case in Washington, D.C.

That order is not in effect as an appeals court weighs Trump's bid to have it overturned.

The judges, however, strongly suggested that they would reinstate the gag order except with some tighter conditions.

There are some weighty constitutional issues at play, but it would be unusual for this appeal

to drag on a lot longer, given that the trial is set to begin in 91 days on March 4th.

And for those keeping score, Trump's hush money trial in Manhattan is scheduled to start

in 111 days on March 25th.

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