Good Wednesday morning, I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing

sponsored by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. And I'm Jake Sherman. Just when it seemed like

the shutdown fight was over, we got word late last night that there were problems in drafting

the border security deal. We started getting text messages late last night that they had hit a roadblock.

Senior aides and lawmakers drafting the bill had hit a number of snags. It seems like the deal was

announced a bit too early. The two sides agreed on the big issues in principle, but as they

put pen to paper, there were both critical issues and ancillary issues that were not yet

solved.

It's unclear how serious these problems are at this point. And if you're warning, these deals

often come apart a few times before they come back together. The difference is the government

shuts down the day after tomorrow, and the House had wanted to vote on this deal this evening.

So we are going to lay out the pain points at this moment. First,

there are disagreements on border language. As Republicans and Democrats work out the border barrier

language, they've hit some snags on how to craft the language that gives President Donald Trump

his $1.375 billion for the border wall. Republicans felt like Democrats might try to tie the president's hand on who needs to give approval, where it is, and how to build it.

There are also issues with federal contractor back pay.

Congress has already passed legislation to make whole federal workers who are not paid during the last shutdown.

There's an effort afoot in negotiations between Republicans

and Democrats to insert language to do the same for federal contractors. This is not necessarily a partisan

issue. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin had a bill that did this, but there is definite disagreement among

Republicans and Democrats about whether they could squeeze this in. The violence against

Women Act is also at issue. Vawa was extended as part of the last government funding bill, and it

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