A quick bullet point drive-by diary to get everyone in the loop on the latest news from inside the Village.
* Agency heads are meeting regularly - in some cases every two hours - to determine how much one-year and two-year carry over money they have left from 2013. Operations that are running are doing so hour-to-hour to determine how much cash they have on hand.
* The law requires you to give a five day notice before you send employees on furlough. Lots of agencies didn't do that, so no one still working knows if they'll get the notice.
* It is expected that notices may get issued to a number of operations still open at close of business tomorrow. If so, on Tuesday they have to begin shutdown. Once a full furlough starts, work will then get done on a rotational basis as funds remain available, by a skeleton crew. The money is drying up.
* No one fully understands the GOP's endgame on the debt limit. NO ONE. It doesn't seem to be a single plan. The street wisdom is that at the last hour Boehner will blink and find a way to put a debt limit increase before the full house. But no one is taking bets on that.
* I heard from a staffer on the Hill that the Wall Streeters are burning up the phone lines demanding an end to this ASAP. They don't care if the government stays closed, but don't allow a default.
* The White House is convinced it's holding all the cards. The bad news is, they're willing to give the GOP SOMETHING. But the good news is, not until the government is back open. No one knows what that something is - apparently not even folks in the White House.
* If you're in a red district, call your Congressperson. They are feeling the heat and need to feel more of it.
All the news that's not pure rumor.