Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook Co. Arthur Eugene Daniels. It's Monday, March 4th. How the hell is already March? Here's what's driving the day. Former South Carolina governor, Nikki Haley, has won her first Republican presidential primary contest. Unfortunately for her is Washington, D.C., and unfortunately for her,

it might be her last. Haley won D.C.'s very insider-heavy GOP primary and its 19 delegates,

with 63% of the ballots cast over the weekend at a downtown hotel. That's about where the good news ends for Haley

this weekend. Donald Trump swept contests in Michigan, Idaho, and Missouri, and he's expected to run

the table again at North Dakota's caucuses tonight. He's also on track to romp the vast majority

of the 865 delegates at stake in

tomorrow's Super Tuesday primaries, which are being held in 16 states and American Samoa.

Also, another week, another looming government shutdown threat. That's right, you'll remember

Congress narrowly averted a shutdown just last week by passing yet another

short-term stopgat bill.

Well, there is another deadline this Friday, but things look a little better for Congress

after House and Senate negotiators released a $459 billion with a B dollar spending

package last night, funding more than a dozen federal departments and independent agencies

through September, right in time for, I don't know, an election. The story is not over yet.

However, this bill represents

only about 30% of discretionary federal spending, and lawmakers have until March 22nd to

hash out the rest, including funding for the Pentagon health programs, and much, much more.

And then, of course, they have to, you know, pass the bill.

As if there wasn't enough news this week between Super Tuesday and the spending deadline,

it's also state of the union week. President Joe Biden this weekend in Camp David huddled

with his closest aides to kind of work on that final state of the union of his first term.

The stakes are really high, not just for kind of the laundry list of policy goals that

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