Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing, sponsored by the Better Medicare Alliance.

Welcome to what will be three very consequential weeks. Here's the brutal truth. There is a better than even chance Congress leaves town at the end of this without a single major legislative achievement to talk about back home.

Here's where things stand. The Senate still doesn't have a way forward on health care reform.

The $1 trillion infrastructure plan Trump promised would be out in the next several weeks

has still not come out, and tax reform is in the hearing phase.

That's not all that is slowing down.

The debt ceiling is frozen.

It's unclear how Capitol Hill will move forward on lifting the

nation's debt limit because of infighting within the White House and whether it should come

with or without strings. The Trump administration is pushing for Congress to take action before

the August recess, but most Hill aides, we speak to say it won't happen. The likely game plan is

the Senate pushing a clean debt increase

to the House, which would then squirm for a day or two, and then pass it with Democratic votes.

Congress has until October to get this done. On government funding, Congress has until the end of

September to get it done. Right now, it looks like Congress will extend funding until December,

and then fight over the rest of the year's funding in the final month of the year.

We've got some big personal news. Jake and I are writing a book. We think Congress is the most exhilarating, exciting, and juicy story in town.

After more than seven years of talking about writing a book about Capitol Hill, we decided that this is our time to do it.

We'll chart the first two years of Trump's presidency through the lens and prism of lawmakers and aides on Capitol Hill. This is a book about people and personalities, political chess,

and the battle for power in Washington. It's a snapshot of official Washington in the era of Donald

Trump. Crown, which published our friends John Allen

and Amy Parnes' book about Hillary Clinton, will publish our work. We anticipate it will be

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