Good Friday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing sponsored by Chevron.

And I'm Anna Palmer. That was a big win yesterday for House Republicans, but don't get too comfy.

December is going to be really brutal. There are spending caps to deal with, government funding that must be passed, and potentially a deal to deal with the expiration of DACA.

There also might be action to prop up the health care law.

And now we hear that the debt ceiling could be part of the mix in the final month of the year as well.

It's not clear to anyone what form this will take.

Basically, what we're trying to tell you is don't make Christmas plans that you absolutely cannot cancel.

Here's the tax reform timeline.

The Senate Finance Committee approved their overhaul of the tax code along party lines last night.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was expected to put it on the floor after Thanksgiving.

Coincidentally, last night was tax prom, an annual get-together of all the tax policy

walks in town. Mike Pence went. President Donald Trump was tweeting about

Senator Al Franken last night. He tweeted, the Al Frankenstein pitcher is really bad, speaks

the thousand words. Where did his hands go in pictures two, three, four, five, and six while

she sleeps? He also tweeted, and to think that just last week he was lecturing anyone who would listen

about sexual harassment and respect for women.

Leslie Stahl tape?

The Washington Post writes that Trump is referring to a New York magazine story about a Saturday

night live writers discussion where Franken suggested a joke about raping 60 minutes correspondent

Leslie Stahl.

It's worth noting, Trump still has not weighed in on the allegations against Worry Moore.

Politico's reporting that the White House is seeking at least $44 billion in a third

...