Good morning. Welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing for Tuesday, April 30th. I'm Blake Hounchell, filling in for Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman.

Stay tuned after the show for a message from the American Beverage Association. All right, the main event today is the meeting between Congressional Democrats and President Donald Trump.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and a few top committee chairs are due to sit down

with the president this morning at the White House to talk about infrastructure. Democrats want

Trump to agree that any infrastructure deal will expand beyond transportation to include

water and energy projects and rely on products and companies based in the U.S.

Now both parties say they want a deal, but it won't be easy, given everything that Democrats are

asking for, including a rollback of Trump's tax cuts. And keep in mind, too, that Mitch McConnell

isn't exactly a fan of infrastructure spending in the first place, and any bill has to get

through the Senate

as well as the House. Plus, who knows if the meeting will stay on topic in the first place?

Will the President bring up some other subjects that have been on his mind lately, like, say,

the Mueller report, or the battle over his tax returns? Or, hey, maybe they'll just talk about

infrastructure the whole time. Who knows? We'll have to see what happens later this morning.

My colleagues, Heather Kagle and Burgess Everett, make this important point about the meeting.

The last time Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer met with Donald Trump, it was an unequivocal disaster, culminating in the longest government shutdown in history.

The White House meeting Tuesday morning is likely to reveal whether anything at all can get done in Washington over government shutdown in history. The White House meeting Tuesday morning

is likely to reveal whether anything at all can get done in Washington over the next 18 months.

So those are the stakes. And let's not forget that Democrats are still wrangling with Attorney

General Bill Barr over the format of his hearing this week before the House Judiciary Committee.

Democrats are stewing over Barr's summary of the

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