Stay tuned after the show for a message from Morgan Stanley.

Good Tuesday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing.

And I'm Jake Sherman. Happy beginning to the end of the summer of 2020. Did it even happen at all?

And thanks to Blake Hounshel for taking the wheel for a few days while we were off.

We're kicking off with some news to White House happenings for your radar.

The Trump

administration expects to announce Donald Trump's list of proposed Supreme Court justices as

early as Wednesday. They're also actively planning to announce expanding the drilling moratorium

off the coast of Florida. They believe both are keys for the campaign quite clearly. Conservatives

are eagerly awaiting Trump's potential court choices and many in Florida want to stop drilling off its shores.

The government is slated to shut down in 22 days, and color us skeptical of all the,

we've decided not to shut a down talk from Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin.

Does anyone actually actively plan to shut down the government? If the two sides

don't get an agreement, are we to believe that after all of that back and forth and calls for a

COVID relief deal, Democrats are just going to fold and agreed to a clean government funding bill?

And Republicans are going to give up their priorities too, just weeks before an election?

As of right now, Senate Republicans are working behind the scenes to see if they can get 51

votes for a skinny COVID bill that they hope to release this week. That bill will include

an extension of the PPP, more enhanced unemployment and money for schools and daycare.

The inability to get 51 GOP votes would be a big defeat for the White House and for Senate

GOP leadership. At this moment, leadership is trying to find a sweet spot in policy that would get

them 51 votes, and there's no guarantee that will happen. Read Marianne Levine and John Bresnehan

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