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This is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

The consensus is in most people on Capitol Hill are kissing Christmas, or at least most of December, goodbye this year.

Senator Debbie Stabenow had this to say to reporters Monday night, quote, we could be in every weekend between now and Christmas, so sorry.

Senator Patrick Leahy is so worried about being here on Christmas that he and his wife bought a holiday tree for their home in D.C.

Here's some reasons for the growing pessimism.

One, Chuck Schumer kicked off his long-de-do list with a step backward thanks to his GP counterpart.

Mitch McConnell on Monday night rallied Republicans against an effort to shut down debate and start voting on the National Defense Authorization Act,

which Schumer hoped to dispense with by midweek in order to move on to the gazillion other things he has to complete before the end of the year.

Republicans said they want more time to take up amendments.

Schumer was furious at what his party believes is an intentional effort to cause a year-end legislative pile-up,

and possibly thwart passage of Joe Biden's Build Back Better Act.

Schumer's office noted that he was willing to allow more amendments than McConnell had permitted

in the past four NDAA bills combined.

For what it's worth, the NDAA was supposed to be the easy part of Schumer's December.

Reason number two, while Democrats barrel ahead on a stopgap funding bill to keep the government running until late January,

top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, Richard Shelby, was non-committal about whether the GOP would accept such a plan.

Democrats need 10 Senate Republicans to support a continuing resolution,

or CR, and typically, the lead appropriator has significant sway. When asked about a late January

CR, Shelby said, quote, I'd like February. March would suit me, April, May, I think it gives

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