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Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing.

And I'm Jake Sherman. This may be the only week the House and Senate are in D.C. for the

lame duck session of Congress. The backdrop is grim. The pandemic is hitting its height and the

economy is showing some signs of struggle, and society is again being tested.

There are 11 days for Congress to put together a spending bill, either an omnibus or stopgap measure to avert a shutdown during the last month of Donald Trump's presidency.

Republicans and Democrats have agreed to the top line numbers, but there are significant

details still remaining to be negotiated.

There is increased pressure from lawmakers in both parties

to include economic stimulus measures like the PPP into the spending bill, even if a broader

consensus overstate and local funding can't be reached, to look for lawmakers to publicly call

on their leaders not to adjourn until that happens. Still unresolved, the NDAA, the Defense

Authorization Act. Most lawmakers want to allow for bases named after

Confederate leaders to be renamed. The White House has pushed back on that. Trump, meanwhile, has not

been meaningfully engaged on any front. He continues to make false claims about voter fraud in the 2020

elections. While much of the world has moved on, Trump has an ever smaller group of Republicans in the

Capitol who continue to back him on his outlandish

claims. Republican lawmakers can expect to get a lot of questions this week about Trump and his

continued quest for redemption and whether they'll support him. A reminder, the Electoral College

will certify the results on December 14th. The Washington Post has a piece on how Wisconsin's

recount confirmed Biden's win. President-elect Joe Biden has set up a number of interesting

confirmation fights, and those will begin in earnest in the next few weeks. Tony Blinking up for

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