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SHUTDOWN SHOWDOWN: Here's where we are: House GOP leaders unveiled a spending plan Tuesday night to fund the government through President’s Day, and once again buy time for a broader spending deal. Without it, the government will run out of money at midnight on Friday. The plan was pitched in a closed-door meeting and, if approved, would be Congress’ fourth spending patch in the same amount of months (an important reality check to keep in mind as we get closer and closer to a Friday cut-off).

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WHAT'S INSIDE? The continuing resolution would give lawmakers until Feb. 16 to draft a trillion-dollar omnibus bill that lasts through September — kicking the can on fights ranging from top-line spending levels to environmental riders and tax extenders that various lawmakers are hoping to include. POLITICO’s Rachael Bade, Sarah Ferris and Jennifer Scholtes report the CR also would delay some Obamacare taxes in order to win over some Republicans who are otherwise reluctant to back another stopgap bill and pass the bill without relying on Democratic votes.

It remains unclear whether the plan could pass in the Senate, where at least nine Democrats would be needed to back the measure and where they are still demanding progress on an immigration deal to protect so-called DREAMers before voting for another funding bill, POLITICO’s Heather Caygle, Rachael and Seung Min Kim report.

DON'T DO IT: West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin told reporters Tuesday shutting down the government “doesn’t make sense” and that he would speak to other moderate Democrats to try and rally the requisite votes to avoid a shutdown. Asked if he could find enough, Manchin replied: “I hope so.”

WELCOME TO WEDNESDAY! I'm your host Kelsey Tamborrino. NAM’s Rachel Jones was the first to know that Rep. Frances Bolton and her son, Rep. Oliver Bolton, both of Ohio, were the only mother-son pair to serve simultaneously in Congress in the 1950s and 60s. For today: Who were the first set of sisters to serve in Congress? Send your tips, energy gossip and comments to ktamborrino@politico.com, or follow us on Twitter @kelseytam, @Morning_Energy, and @POLITICOPro.

NUCLEAR GROUP LOSES TWO UTILITIES: The nuclear power industry’s central lobbying outfit in D.C. is losing two of its utility member companies, NextEra and Entergy. Nuclear Energy Institute CEO Maria Korsnick said the two companies “made the business decision not to renew" their memberships with the trade association. NextEra and Entergy operate more than a dozen reactors, and both had seats on NEI's board of directors. The companies declined to comment. "We are disappointed by the decision but remain committed to our role as the voice of the nuclear industry representing the vast majority of the U.S. nuclear power generators on regulatory and policy issues,” Korsnick said in a statement to ME. NEI board chairman Don Brandt insists the group's work to advance the industry's policy interests "has never been more important.”

It’s been a tough 18-months for NEI. The group has parted ways with three senior executives since the summer of 2016, and conducted a restructuring a year ago that cut about 15 staff — moves that reflect some of the industry’s struggles.

PLAY BY EARMARK: The House Rules Committee will hold two hearings this week on the potential rebirth of earmarks. The first hearing, for lawmaker testimony, will occur this morning. The second, which will include outside witnesses, occurs Thursday morning.

But Chairman Pete Sessions said Tuesday he’s already begun early talks with some GOP leaders about reviving earmarks solely to fund local transportation and infrastructure projects, Pro’s Sarah Ferris reports. The Texas Republican said he spoke informally with the chairmen of the House Appropriations and Transportation committees to float the plan, which came via fellow Texas Republican John Culberson, as well as Rep. Tom Rooney. Both men have sought to bring back some form of earmarks as a means to exert more influence over the Army Corps of Engineers.

Similarly, House Speaker Paul Ryan has also called out the Army Corps when discussing the possibility of lifting the ban, with Ryan calling the Corps not “up to snuff about getting its job done." A spokeswoman for Sessions cautioned that the conversations have been primarily off-the-cuff on the House floor, and that the committee has no set plan or expectations for reviving earmarks. But Sessions hinted he’d make the case for the infrastructure-focused earmarks at Thursday’s hearing.

HOW MUCH HAVE YOU HEARD? A new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll found voters favor offshore drilling to the East and West coasts, but a majority had heard little to nothing about the Trump administration's plans to exempt Florida from its plan to expand offshore drilling. Asked if they support drilling on the East and West coasts, 44 percent of voters either “strongly” or “somewhat” support the practice, while 37 percent either “somewhat” or “strongly” oppose. Respondents were also asked whether they had “seen, read or heard the Trump administration’s decision to exempt Florida from expanded offshore drilling — 7 percent said they’d heard “a lot,” 25 percent they’d heard “some,” 23 percent said “not much” and 35 percent said they’d heard “nothing at all.” Read the poll’s toplines here and its crosstabs here.

Taking this class pass-fail: Another POLITICO/Morning Consult poll took a look at Trump’s first-year report card, where grades are split between 35 percent of voters giving the president an “F,” and 34 percent of voters giving Trump an “A” or “B” for his first year in office. Unsurprisingly, some of the president’s worst marks came via climate change, the new poll shows. Roughly half of voters (49 percent) give Trump a “D” or “F,” while only a quarter (24 percent) give Trump an “A” or “B” on the issue, POLITICO’s Steven Shepard reports.

MURPHY STARTS OFF WITH A FIGHT: New Jersey Democrat Phil Murphy was sworn in Tuesday as the state’s 56th governor and used his inaugural remarks to reiterate that he’d fight the administration’s offshore drilling plan. During his 34-minute address, Murphy said he will resist "Washington's all-out assault on New Jersey,” POLITICO New Jersey’s Danielle Muoio reports. "We will resist the dangerous and wrong attempt to allow drilling for oil off our precious shore," Murphy said. "Our administration, along with the bipartisan support of our federal delegation, will not back down in our fight to protect the Jersey Shore from President [Donald] Trump and the energy industry special interests."

The comments follow a letter sent by Murphy, former Gov. Chris Christie and Sen. Cory Booker on Sunday calling Zinke to exempt New Jersey from the drilling plan.

A NEW HOPE? With so much dysfunction playing out in Congress, Sarah and Pro’s Jennifer Scholtes parse out how earmarks might be able to fix the broken budgeting process. Read it here.

FOR YOUR RADAR: Sen. Jim Inhofe, a long-time friend and ally of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, told ME the two would have a catch up conversation this week. ME asked Inhofe to see if he could get any more deets on Pruitt’s forthcoming trip to Israel.

SPOTTED: Pruitt met with a group of agency regional administrators, the administrator tweeted. "We had the opportunity to come together to discuss keeping up the momentum that has started and leading our Agency through action," Pruitt said.

TIMING IS EVERYTHING: Senate Energy Chairman Lisa Murkowski would have loved for her energy bill S. 1460 (115) to have already made its way through the chamber, but said she hoped its moment in the spotlight would come after the government funding package gets resolved this week. "I had really hoped that by this point in the calendar we would have cleared up all this stuff from the end of year, but we haven’t,” she told reporters. "Once we get on the other side of that, that’s when I hope to move the energy bill.”

LIGHTER CLICK: Asked about his thoughts on cryptocurrency, T. Boone Pickens account tweeted: "At 89, anything with the word 'crypt' in it is a real turnoff for me."

CUT COPY: Once a federal spending plan is in place, EPA could offer new buyouts and early retirements to its workforce later this year, Federal News Radio reports. Rough math indicates EPA could offer buyouts to an additional 2,200 to 2,500 employees under the new fiscal plan.

WHO’S HELD EVENTS AT TRUMP PROPERTIES? Public Citizen released a new report documenting the political campaigns, trade group, nonprofits and other groups that held events at Trump’s properties during his first year in office. Trade groups on the list include the American Petroleum Institute and the National Mining Association. Here’s the full report.

CAMPFIRE TALES: HBO's Vice News episode on Tuesday featured four former EPA employees who left the agency in 2017 and one agency union representative gathered around a campfire. "Immediately there was this cone of secrecy dropped over the political team," said Betsy Southerland, formerly of the Office of Water, on what changed in the earlier days of the Trump era. "No one would speak to us at all." Promo for the episode here.

LISTEN IN: In the latest POLITICO Money podcast, Sen. Tom Carper said Democrats are already skeptical of the Trump administration’s approach to infrastructure funding. The top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee said he hopes the White House puts forth a serious infrastructure proposal that could garner Democratic support, but said early reports of the plan don’t inspire great confidence. “I think most people understand if we want to have better roads, highways, bridges, trains … we gotta pay for them,” Carper said.

Carper also said he was skeptical that voters will ultimately embrace the GOP tax cut bill. “I’m not so sure that at the end of the day the tax cut bill that was passed is going to be viewed warmly by voters either this year or later on,” he said. “People don’t like it already, and I think as they get to know it better they aren’t going to be more fond of it.”

SPEAKING OF THE TAX OVERHAUL: Florida Power & Light Co. announced Tuesday that it won't need to seek a rate increase for Hurricane Irma damage — citing the federal tax bill signed into law by Trump in December. FPL previously said it expected to seek charging customers $1.3 billion for damage caused by Irma, but now says the tax plan will equate to an average savings of $250 per customer. POLITICO Florida’s Bruce Ritchie reports more here.

KEEP YOUR POLITICS OUT: The National Academies released a statement Tuesday lamenting politics’ role in awarding research grants, a potentially worrying issue under the Trump administration. “The public expects policymakers and agencies to base” public investments in research “on independent advice and assessment from unbiased experts without political interference,” NAS said. “For these reasons, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine view any political review of scientific proposals as inappropriate, as it gives the appearance of political interference in science.”

MAIL CALL — DEMS QUESTION BLM LEASING: House Natural Resources ranking member Raul Grijalva and California Rep. Alan Lowenthal sent a letter to BLM Deputy Director Brian Steed, raising questions about EnergyNet, which manages the agency’s online leasing program for oil and gas leases. The lawmakers request a copy of the company’s contract and question whether EnergyNet is profiting at taxpayers’ expense. Read the letter here.

— Ahead of Thursday’s House Natural Resources Oversight hearing on Interior’s energy burdens, more than 40 conservation groups signed onto a letter calling for the committee “to fulfill its duty to engage in meaningful oversight of the administration’s stewardship of our nation’s irreplaceable public lands, waters and natural resources.” Read it here.

MOVERS, SHAKERS: Brooke Sammon last week left the American Petroleum Institute's communications team to join the public affairs and communications firm Firehouse Strategies.

— Jessica Franks started a new gig Tuesday as director of government relations at the Edison Electric Institute. Franks formerly was a government affairs representative at Halliburton.

QUICK HITS

— Cloud Peak in deal to supply coal to Japan, The Wall Street Journal.

— Nearly all members of National Park Service advisory panel resign in frustration, The Washington Post.

— 'Revolutionary' pilot uses CO2 to drive turbines, E&E News.

— Carbon emissions reporting rollback in tax extender splits alliance, Bloomberg BNA.

— U.S. Working Hard to Boost Wind Energy, Adviser Says in Denmark, Bloomberg.

THAT'S ALL FOR ME!