Good Wednesday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing, sponsored by BP.

And I'm Anna Palmer. We're on day 33 of the government shutdown. Here's Playbook's guide to understanding the Senate's vote plan.

On Thursday, the Senate will vote on two different bills. First, President Donald Trump's plan to reopen government alongside

a short-term DACA patch and other immigration changes. And second, a vote on a clean funding bill

that would reopen government through February 8th. Both of these bills are likely to fail.

Neither is expected to reach the 60-vote threshold it needs. What this does do is give senators a chance to

vote on government funding, something Mitch McConnell's Senate has not done in a few weeks. For the

record, there will be Republicans who vote for the clean stopgap bill, but not nearly enough

to reopen the government, at least at this point. Ending the standoff does not appear to be the purpose of this

exercise. This is a pressure valve release of sorts. Here's what this will do. This shows the

president that neither option is workable at the moment, and some dynamic has to change if government

is going to reopen. House Republicans use this strategy when they were in the majority. It allowed frustrated lawmakers to vote.

It also gets members on the record about where they stand on the president's proposal and the clean government funding bill.

White House aides keep telling us the president will not reopen government unless it includes a plan to build his wall.

Here's a sneak peek on the president's day.

He is holding a conference call on his immigration proposal with state, local, and community leaders. That's at 10.30 a.m. He'll also meet with conservative leaders on his proposal at 3 p.m. in the Roosevelt room. And a quick heads up, people close to the President believe he will give a state of the union outside of Washington. Here's a benefit.

It gets him outside of D.C. A drawback? If it turns into another campaign rally, it isn't really

a state of the union and it won't get a deal to reopen the government. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was on

Fox News last night with Sean Hannity, where she called the president a leader and Nancy Pelosi,

nothing more than an obstructionist.

She also said the president is focused on talking with the American people when it comes to the

state of the union. It's been a month since there's been a White House press briefing.

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