Good Monday morning, I'm Jake Sherman, and welcome to your Politico Playbook Flash Briefing, sponsored by BP.

And I'm Anna Palmer.

While congressional Republicans are returning to Washington this week for the president's joint address,

the one thing everybody is going to be talking about this morning is the snafu at last night's Oscars,

when Warren Beatty and Fay Dun went incorrectly named La La Land as

the winner of Best Pitcher. Moonlight was the actual winner. Imagine if that happened in politics.

Speaking of actual winners, let's talk about the journalism business. There's been a lot of hand-wringing

about Donald Trump's decision to skip the annual White House correspondence dinner. We believe he

did the industry a favor so we could return to our roots of celebrating good journalism.

Our colleague Shane Goldmacher, Sarah Ferris, and Jen Schultes are out with a story about how

Trump is looking to raise military spending but cut everything else. Expect Trump's first

federal budget to cut back domestic programs but make

no significant changes in entitlements. For what it's worth, this runs counter to almost a decade

of Republican budgeting orthodoxy. Speaker Paul Ryan gained prominence in the early days of the

Republican majority by making tweaks to entitlement programs. Almost everybody in the Republican Party believes

it's necessary to overhaul entitlements to balance the budget. Trump, however, doesn't seem to

have much interest in that. The Wall Street Journal is out with a report that congressional

Republicans are looking to move as early as this week on repealing Obamacare. The decision means

that Republicans will go it

alone on the legislation, a risky proposal considering the heat many Republicans felt over

the recess weekend from constituents opposed to repealing Obamacare. Our colleagues Annie Carney

and Alex Eisenstad have the scoop on White House Communications Director Sean Spicer

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