Good Friday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing,

sponsored by the National Retail Federation. And I'm Jake Sherman. The government is close,

very close to shutting down. Funding runs dry at 1159.59 tonight. We were in the Capitol until very

late last night and the intra-party dynamics now point to political loggerheads. Republican leadership in the House and Senate seem pretty comfortable in their political

position. Paul Ryan's House passed a month-long funding bill with a six-year extension of

children's health insurance. He says Senate Democrats should take it up immediately. Why should

they take it up? He says they don't disagree with anything in the bill, but instead Democrats

want Republicans to take up DACA. Top GOP minds involved in these talks tell us that they don't disagree with anything in the bill, but instead Democrats want Republicans to take up DACA.

Top GOP minds involved in these talks tell us that they won't, under any circumstances,

consider DACA or a budget deal if the government is closed. Senior Republicans say,

unless they turn weak need, they will force Democrats to vote against reopening the government

again and again until they relent. Remember, Senate Democrats

have re-elections in Trump states like West Virginia, Missouri, North Dakota, and Indiana.

Democrats, meanwhile, have a more resolve than we've seen in a while. For many of them,

the DACA issue is a core value, not a political position. They say they are tired of not being

consulted on legislation where

Republicans need their support. Dems hope that today, after Republicans fail to move forward on the bill,

cooler heads will prevail and they'll come to negotiate. Of course, we're talking about the Senate,

so this can all change. Burgess Everett and Sungman Kim detail how bad it got last night in the

Senate chamber. For a few minutes, it looked like they couldn't even agree to adjourn for the night

after Senator Angus King objected to go to bed. After 10 p.m., Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

finally secured agreement to send senators home for the night and regroup. The Senate is slated to

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