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Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook co-author Rachel Bade. It's Monday, November 6th.

Last week, we got a short reprieve from the speakership drama that engulfed Washington for all of October,

but this week promises to be something of a nutso a few days in the political worlds.

We've got elections on

Tuesday, and Playbook will have more to say on that tomorrow. And the latest Republican primary

debate is on Wednesday in Miami. You should pick up and read Playbook for exclusives on two

campaign messaging strategies going into this debate. On Capitol Hill, we are now less than two

weeks out from a government shutdown.

Sure, some financial forecasters appear to be less worried about a shutdown now that they were in

September during the funding debate back then, but positive spin aside, we remain in almost the

exact same political position we were just a few weeks ago. New Speaker Mike Johnson continues to

insist on conservative concessions to pass a CR, which buys more time for negotiators to iron out

long-term spending bills, and Democrats maintain that they're loath to give him anything,

which is teeing up a clash in the days before Thanksgiving. We hear Johnson is privately

starting to lay the groundwork for

CR and is expecting to talk through details with his rank and file on Tuesday morning at the

conference meeting. Meanwhile, Democratic infighting on the Hill is going to crescendo this week,

and we're not just talking about how to handle Israel's ongoing retaliation against Hamas.

Last week, our colleagues reported that

the White House was laying the groundwork to give GOP border concessions in return for a vote on Ukraine

aid, even on Trump's controversial changes to asylum policies. Now, congressional progressives are

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