Good Monday morning and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, sponsored by

Farma. Here are four things to watch as Congress comes back for its summer session. An immigration

blow up is imminent. A petition to force a wide-ranging immigration debate on the House floor is

five short of the requisite 218 signatures. Republican leaders have been working feverishly

behind the scenes to strike a

compromise that would avoid the free-flowing debate and instead give Republicans a series of

circumscribed votes this month. Republicans have a two-hour policy meeting on Thursday to discuss

immigration. No matter what happens, these next four weeks will be dominated in part by the

immigration debate that Congress has been yearning for for the past six years. This will be dominated in part by the immigration debate that Congress has been

yearning for the past six years. This will be a defining moment for Republicans, and there's a lot of

skepticism. Things will go smoothly. The president's trade war will hit Capitol Hill. Republicans

up until now have taken the position that the president has the ability to alter trade policy

without Congress's say. Look for Republicans to weigh in on

the tariffs against Canada and Mexico and weigh their options when it comes to a policy that they

vehemently disagree with. Spending fights. Congress runs out of money on September 30th and they have

vowed to spend a bunch of time this summer passing spending bills. The House is in the driver's seat and

will lead the process. President Donald Trump is going to push vehemently for more funding for his

border wall, and that will complicate the process. In the coming weeks, you'll hear conservatives

push for immediate consideration of a funding bill to avoid the September shutdown. On another note,

the budget-cutting rescissions bill is stalled in the

House, as Republican leaders have had a hard time convincing enough lawmakers that spending cuts

are a good idea at the moment. The White House is tweaking the request. Republican leadership drama.

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