Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels. It's Wednesday, November 15th. Here's what's driving the day. The probably biggest news, the biggest revelation that we have this morning is that the government looks like it might stay open. On Tuesday night, the House passed a continuing resolution to keep

the government open. The piece of legislation passed on a 336 to 95 vote. It will extend the funding

at current spending levels for about 20% of the federal government until January 19th, and the remaining 80% until February 2nd.

This is what House Speaker Mike Johnson has been calling his latter approach.

He and his team say the latter deadlines are to let the House and the Senate to get together

and actually negotiate full year

spending bills through the two chambers, something that people are very interested to see

is actually even possible in the current Congress that we have. As Democrats will often bring up,

the White House and Kevin McCarthy already have this discussion about those 12 spending bills earlier this year

and came to agreements. So getting them back at the table to do this or even getting Democrats

and the House and Senate back at the table to do this is going to be a feat. The good news for

everyone who depends on the government is that Senate leaders say they're

going to take up the legislation as soon as possible. Democratic leaders have over and over and over

again said they don't like the way that this was handled. They don't like this kind of weird

ladder situation, but they don't want to see the government closed. And last night, a White House

official told

playbook, quote, if it passes the Senate, the president will sign this continuing resolution

that maintains current funding levels and has no harmful policy rioters. They also added that

House Republicans must stop wasting time on extreme partisan appropriations bills that break the

bipartisan agreement, two-thirds of them voted for, and instead work quickly with Democrats

on full-year appropriations bills. It's Wednesday. So the Senate does have time to get this

passed and get this to President Biden's deaths way before the Saturday deadline.

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