Good Monday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing, sponsored by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.

And I'm Anna Palmer. Okay, well, we're now in a shutdown week. Negotiations between Republicans and Democrats have broken down, and they are on the brink of being beyond repair.

Here's what's at issue. Democrats are pushing for a statutory

cap of 16,500 detention beds for people detained in the U.S., which is what they believe is a

mechanism to focus the Trump administration's interior enforcement policies. Republicans say it's

arbitrary and will allow criminals to rove the homeland freely.

Republicans believe some undocumented immigrants who commit crimes in the U.S.

should be exempt from the cap, and Democrats disagree.

This is a fundamental disagreement in the talks.

There is also disagreement on how much to spend on border barriers and where such structures should go.

The Times is reporting senior

military officials are raising more concerns about not conducting training missions needed for their

regular duties. The Washington Post is reporting federal workers are dreading another shutdown.

One employee that the Post highlights has been put into financial ruin because of the shutdown and is

afraid of another one. Time is of the essence. Congress needs to solve this. The government

shuts down Friday. That leaves four days in session. The House doesn't come in until tonight

to move a bill through Congress. We hear the Democratic House will pass a several weeks stopgap

spending bill for DHS, along with a minibus

for the rest of the outstanding spending bills. The DHS bill will include their desired

restrictions on the border wall and detention beds. Also expect the White House to become more vocal

in the next few days. President Donald Trump is going to El Paso tonight for a rally. Last night

we got a call from the administration,

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