Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing. Stay tuned after the show for a message from pharma.

And I'm Jake Sherman. We've got some news at the top of playbook today. The Trump administration is holding a call this morning to announce a new DOJ, DHS rule for asylum claims of aliens who enter or attempt to enter the United States across the southern border.

The administration has been eager to have Congress change asylum laws, but appears that the White

House is taking matters into its own hands. Here's some things to watch for the week. We are now

in the last two weeks before the August recessed. There needs to be a good deal of progress in talks

between Stephen Mnuchin and Nancy Pelosi

if there's a chance to get a budget and debt limit deal before Congress splits for the summer.

It's looking more and more likely that Congress will have to hike the debt limit without a budget deal.

There are just eight days left in session.

President Donald Trump doubled down last night on his tweets that Democratic lawmakers should, quote,

go back and help fix countries they came from.

Here's what he tweeted at 802 p.m.

So sad to see the Democrats sticking up for people who speak so badly of our country and who, in

addition, hate Israel with a true and unbridled passion.

Whenever confronted, they call their adversaries, including Nancy Pelosi, racist, their disgusting language. He also tweeted,

and the many terrible things they say about the United States must not be allowed to go unchallenged.

If the Democrat Party wants to continue to condone such disgraceful behavior,

then we look even more forward to seeing you at the ballot box in 2020. If you had any question

that the Republican Party has fully become the party of the president, not one elected Republican

has called out Trump for his go-home remark. The New York Times has a 30,000-foot look at Trump and race.

Peter Baker writes that the president plays with fire like no other president in a century,

while others who occupied the White House at times scurred close to or even over the line,

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