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Hey, good morning, Playbookers.

It's Thursday, August 5th.

I'm Ruggumana Vallin.

And this is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

Chuck Schumer is about to double-dog dare Mitch McConnell and his members to vote against a dead ceiling increase this

haul. Double Dog Dair, by the way, I believe is an arcane Senate tactic. The original

filibuster, some call it. Anyway, just weeks after the minority leader implored Schumer

to tack a dead ceiling increase onto the reconciliation bill, Schumer instead is maneuvering to make

Republicans squirm.

Here's the tentative plan. Tacked the dead ceiling hike to a short-term funding bill

designed to avert a government shutdown at the end of September. That move would require

GOP support. The Democratic leader is in short, betting the GOP will cave rather than risk the blame for destabilizing

the economy. The strategy scooped Wednesday by our in-house budget gurus, Caitlin Emma, and

Jennifer Schultz, sets up a hugely consequential game of chicken between the two leaders.

There's not a lot of time here. Lawmakers will only have a few days to plot a path forward

when they return from their summer recess in mid-September. Without an agreement, the government

will shut down on October 1st, and the Treasury could run out of money a few days later.

The situation reminds us of 2011 when Barack Obama was in office, when Republicans demanded

spending cuts in return for raising the borrowing cap.

You might remember the brinksmanship led standards and pores to downgrade the nation's credit

for the first time ever.

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