Irma isn’t the only Category 5 hurricane headed for the United States. As the nation heads back to work today, refreshed from Labor Day weekend, a perfect storm of political crises is brewing over Washington, D.C., where Donald Trump is running from a long summer of scandals straight into an autumnal minefield.

September, of course, was supposed to be when the administration would make its big push for tax reform, which is still, ostensibly, the top item on Team Trump’s agenda. Republicans, who also need some kind of legislative win before the 2018 elections, want the fall’s focus to be on taxes, too. “People are feeling optimistic because they do not see failure as an option. They’ve put all of their eggs in one basket now, and that basket is tax reform,” a source told Politico. “The fear of failure on this will cause people to agree with things they may not normally agree to.” Unfortunately, September is also shaping up to be filled with one crisis after another for the administration, which could derail tax reform entirely. Even before Trump unexpectedly tossed an ultimatum on comprehensive immigration reform to Congress, the White House was facing a nuclear North Korea; the continual prospect of a trade war with China; a budget showdown over a spending bill to keep the government running; a negotiation over the debt ceiling and funding for Trump’s border wall; and the ever more clear, very present danger of Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

Hurricane Harvey may have solved some of these problems by forcing lawmakers to temporarily set aside their differences and pass a disaster relief bill. The House is expected to pass legislation to fund the recovery effort—Trump has asked for nearly $8 billion—and the Senate is expected to add an amendment raising the debt ceiling before sending it back. That’s good for the people of Texas and it’s also good for the U.S. as a whole, because it will mean not rattling markets, to say nothing of defaulting on our debt, potentially losing our triple-A rating, and shaking up the global financial system. Harvey may also give Trump an out to walk back his August threat to shut down the government if Congress does not allocate funds to build his border wall, kicking the can down the road until another likely budget showdown in December.

For every crisis that is accidentally solved for Donald Trump, America’s drama-loving president creates another. On Tuesday, Trump announced (via Attorney General Jeff Sessions) that he will be ending Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama-era rule that currently protects undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children from deportation and allows them to apply for renewable two-year work permits. Trump has reportedly agonized over the consequences, or at least the optics, of clearing the way for mass deportation of some 800,000 people who grew up in America, but believes the DACA program is illegal. Facing the threat of a lawsuit from several state attorney generals, the president gave Congress six months to find a legislative solution or else shoulder the responsibility for the ensuing political firestorm. Which means that Republicans—who, again, were planning to focus on tax reform—will now also have to resolve one of the party’s stickiest, most divisive political issues with a March deadline hanging over their heads.

It doesn’t help matters that the president is apparently engaged in a cold war with his staff over his ability to act, well, like himself. Trump is reportedly unhappy with Chief of Staff John Kelly—i.e., the “church lady”—and the new rules he’s implemented since entering the West Wing, like no longer allowing anyone to just waltz into the Oval Office and spout off about something they heard from a guy who knows a guy who read something on the Internet. He’s also said to be on the outs with National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn and is making unauthorized calls on his personal phone to former senior adviser Steve Bannon to kvetch about the situation. In addition, Trump’s longtime bodyguard Keith Schiller, who is viewed as “one of the president’s closest confidants outside his family,” is reportedly leaving the White House, unhappy about the new Kelly regime. Without that sounding board, we’re about to find out whether Trump will fall in line with Kelly’s new way of doing things or act out in rebellion.