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Hey, what's up Playbookers? I'm Raguma Navalin. It's Monday. And good news for people who like

bad news, it's the return of debt ceiling drama. This is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

Here's your scoop of the day, Politico's Betsy Woodruff Swan and Meredith McGraw report that, quote,

A former D.C. National Guard official is accusing two senior army leaders of lying to Congress and

participating in a secret attempt to rewrite the history of the military's response to the Capitol riot.

In a 36-page memo, Colonel Earl Matthews, who held high-level

National Security Council and Pentagon rolls during the Trump administration, slams the

Pentagon's inspector general for what he calls, an error-riddled report that protects a top

army official who argued against sending the National Guard to the Capitol on January 6th.

That delayed the response to the insurrection for hours.

Matthews' memo sent to the January 6th Select Committee this month and obtained by Politico,

includes detailed recollections of the insurrection response as it calls two army generals,

quote, absolute and unmitigated liars for their characterization of the events of that day.

Matthews has never publicly discussed the chaos of the capital siege.

You can check out the rest of that story in today's playbook.

Lawmakers returned to Washington this week for what could be the trickiest issue of the month,

the debt ceiling.

House Democratic leaders have discussed adding a provision addressing the debt ceiling to the final NDAA and voting on it as soon as this week.

That's according to a senior Democratic aide.

That's assuming, of course, that compromise NDAA language is ironed out between the two chambers.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has privately signaled to Majority Leader of Chuck Schumer that he could go along with this idea, which would end their months-long stalemate.

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