Democrats and Republicans are already digging in on a fight over several fiscal crises that Congress will face when it returns from its August recess.

Looming in September are a pair of budget battles — one to raise the nation’s debt ceiling and another to continue funding the federal government — that have become a familiar battlegrounds for the White House and Republican leadership. With immigration reform slowly working through the House and a docket of largely noncontroversial measures scheduled before next week’s session wrap up, lawmakers this week shifted focus to the fall showdown.