Good Thursday morning, I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, sponsored by Chevron.

And I'm Jake Sherman. Big Day in the People's House. The House of Representatives will vote on their tax package and President Donald Trump is heading to the Capitol to hold a rally of sorts for the bill.

Spoiler alert, the House will pass their bill quite easily. It's kind of surprising to many top Republican

aides and lawmakers who expected some hiccups along the way. We don't expect Trump to appear

publicly with any House Republicans. Will they go to the White House to celebrate? We'll see.

In the Senate, of course, things are getting rocky. The Wall Street Journal reports that

Wisconsin Republican, Ron Johnson, is the first Senate Republican to oppose the GOP tax plan.

They can pass it without me, let them, Mr. Johnson told the journal, in an interview Wednesday, adding that the plan unfairly benefits corporations more than other types of businesses.

Other GOP senators to watch, John McCain of Arizona, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska,

Susan Collins of Maine, and Bob Corker of Tennessee. Sung Min Kim and Jen Habercorn have the

backstory on how Senator Tom Cotton got some unexpected support from President Trump to insert the

individual mandate into the Senate bill. Trump told Cotton he was with him, quote,

1,000 percent. So far, Republicans have had a reprie from industry groups and companies

trashing their bill. Nancy Cook reports that businesses and conservatives are holding their

fire in large part out of the desperation that the legislation must pass to ensure a victory

before the midterm elections.

The AP interviewed Ivanka Trump on her work on the child tax credit, which she called

not a pet project. She also told the wire that she and her husband, Jared Kushner,

aren't leaving Washington anytime soon. Looking ahead to 2018, Colin Wilhelm has a piece up

on how tax reform may actually doom Trump's infrastructure

planning because it would repeal a key provision that Trump hopes to use to pay for his $1 trillion

infrastructure plan. And Darren Samuelson has a piece up on how Hope Hicks may hold the keys to

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