Good Monday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing,

sponsored by the American Bankers Association. Welcome to the last week of relative quiet in Washington.

Congress is back next week and has to deal with the following items. The National Flood Insurance

Program expires at the end of September. The FAA needs its authority renewed by the end of the month.

S-CHIP, a state-based health care program, must be renewed by the end of September as well. Oh, yeah, the government runs out of money September 30th, and the debt ceiling needs to be lifted September 29th. There are roughly 50 legislative days left in 2017, and then we're in an election year. Meanwhile, on the world stage, you must have heard this a few times, but President Donald

Trump has repeatedly said that Mexico will pay for a border wall.

But the country's foreign ministry released a statement saying it would not pay for a wall

or any other physical barrier at the border under any circumstance.

The statement reads, this determination is not part of a Mexican negotiating strategy, but a principle

of national sovereignty and dignity. The U.S. is currently trying to renegotiate NAFTA with Canada and

Mexico. The situation in Houston is not getting better. Hurricane Harvey is shaping up to be the

worst storm in the state's history. The National Weather Service tweeted Sunday that the impacts of the storm are not yet known.

The Houston Chronicle quoted Mayor Sylvester Turner saying police and fire officials have received nearly 6,000 calls and it rescued more than a thousand people.

Governor Greg Abbott said 3,000 National Guard members will be in Houston.

The Washington Post reports that FEMA director

Brock Long said the devastation is probably the worst in the state's history. One thing to watch

will be how Trump surveys the storm tomorrow in Houston. Both airports are closed. The city is

completely paralyzed. The Washington Post scoops that Trump sought to build a Trump tower in Moscow during his presidential run.

A Russian-born real estate developer wanted Trump to travel to Moscow and push the proposals,

saying he could get Russian President Vladimir Putin to say great things about Trump.

Trump never went to Moscow, and the deal ultimately fell apart at the end of January 2016.

Josh Dossi has a fun story this morning on Trump reveling in the Oval Office photo opportunity.

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