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Hey, good morning, playbookers.

I'm Kara Tabor.

It's Monday, and here's the question.

Will the Senate cross anything off its to-do list before the next recess?

This is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

Today, Congress returns from a two-week recess facing the same unresolved issues that have plagued

lawmakers for months.

One big difference, though, the legislative hourglass is running out of time for Congress to work

its way through a jam-pack to-do list.

The Senate is in for a five-week stretch before Memorial Day recess, and the House is out

the first week of May.

That's when midterm election season really kicks into high gear, and it'll become much more

difficult to pass legislation. Here's some of what they hope to tackle. Number one, pandemic

relief money. Lawmakers left town unable to pass a bipartisan deal to provide the administration

with $10 billion in

pandemic relief money. An agreement was brokered in part by Utah Senator Mitt Romney, but a bipartisan

group of moderates on both sides of the aisle were just as adamant about attaching an

amendment to the package to laying the White House's repeal of Title 42. With the White House unwilling to agree,

Senator Majority Leader Chuck Schumer scuttled any plans for the vote, realizing there would be

enough support to pair their provisions. There's still no immediate solution in sight.

Pressure to maintain Donald Trump's pandemic era asylum crackdown has only grown as battleground Democrats came out

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