Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing. Stay tuned

after the show for a message from the National Retail Federation. And I'm Jake Sherman. The federal

government is shut down due to weather. The House is scheduled to have votes this evening at 630.

And as a publication time, the votes were still scheduled. The Senate is supposed to be in session

two. The New York Times is a big picture look on day 24 of the still scheduled. The Senate is supposed to be in session two.

The New York Times is a big picture look on day 24 of the government shutdown.

The Times writes the border wall fight is just the beginning of clashes with House Democrats,

as they are going to investigate him.

The media is competing for scoops, and the first articles of impeachment have already been filed.

ABC's Tara Palmerian tweeted that the White House is considering asset seizure funds to pay for the wall. The Justice Department is against it, and she writes it would likely end up in the courts.

The president was up in tweeting last night. He tweeted at 10.12 p.m.

The Trump portrait of an unsustainable border crisis is dead on. In the last two years,

ICE officers made 266,000 arrests of aliens with criminal records, including those charged or convicted

of 100,000 assaults, 30,000 sex crimes, and 4,000 violent killings. America's Southern, and at 1018 p.m., he followed with,

border, is eventually going to be militarized and defended, or the United States, as we have known it,

is going to cease to exist. And Americans will not go gentle into that good night. Patrick Buchanan.

The great people of our country demand proper border security now.

The New York Times also has a story about the impact and how many restaurants and other places

are empty amid the shutdown. The Wall Street Journal reports the shutdown could cause an issue with

economic growth after hundreds of thousands of federal workers went without pay.

Axios has a piece up about how Trump went after

Mick Mulvaney in front of congressional leaders of both parties, creating an awkward situation,

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