Copyright Bloomberg

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Every Monday, Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Nathan Dean gives his insights into what’s been happening and what’s coming up in the nooks and crannies of government and markets. Sign up here. Email our editors here. You have to love taking a long weekend. And that’s what I’m currently doing, with the family, at a mountain resort a few hours away from Washington. But there’s no escaping the drama at the Capitol. I was at the pool last night chatting with another dad, who is a federal employee, and told him the government most likely would re-open this week. The relief on his face was evident, but he had three main questions.