Thread by @JakeSherman

OK — so Playbook PM is about to come out. And i regret to inform you that no one has a damn clue what the president is up to.

Not Republicans. Not much of his White House. no one.

Some people say Trump is in burn it down mode. Some people say he isn’t going to veto this package.

Who cares, frankly. No one knows what he is doing or what goal he’s driving toward.

Maybe he comes out today en route to FL and says he was kidding about the veto thing -- but maybe not, and he’s not running a corner store, he’s running the world’s most important country in the middle of a pandemic, so we can’t work with maybes.

SO, HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW: The government is funded through Monday at 11:59 p.m. The current legislation to extend that funding and renew Covid relief is the bipartisan bill that passed Congress early Tuesday morning

That’s the $900 bn package negotiated by the Four Corners and Washington’s Most Eager and now Scorned Man,Treasury Secretary STEVEN MNUCHIN. That bill is in the enrollment process, and will reach the White House by Thursday or Friday.

WE’RE IN A CRISIS, obviously, and a ton of important emergency provisions are going to either expire or need refreshing in the coming days. But the immediate concern is that the government shuts down Monday night -- imagine a shutdown during a pandemic.

Speaker NANCY PELOSI’S Democratic Caucus is going to try to get unanimous consent to bring the $2,000-check bill Thursday.

They can’t bring this up with minority consent and the GOP is NOT going to give the dems consent right now., per several sources with knowledge.

DEMOCRATS could also try for a stopgap measure Thursday on the floor to keep the government open past Monday, but again, they’d need GOP buy-in on that.

IF TRUMP DOESN’T GIVE ANY INDICATION THAT HE PLANS to sign the $900 billion bipartisan bill between now and … let’s call it Friday … the House and Senate are going to have to make plans to avert a government shutdown.

The House is set to come back on Monday. They will also be back to override TRUMP’S NDAA veto, if he gets around to that today. (It’s the last day he can veto it.)

THERE’S A DARK SENSE that’s setting in among lawmakers, aides and even some of those TRUMP WORLD “insiders” that this entire tantrum is because Republicans are abandoning him on the Electoral College vote and acknowledging that his presidency is over.

This isn’t a policy fight, they say. This is a reaction to being abandoned.

IT’S NOT CLEAR who has the president’s ear at this point -- if anyone does at all. He’s leaving for Florida this afternoon in the 4 p.m. hour.