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Good Friday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing.

And I'm Jake Sherman. Enhanced unemployment benefits run out today. In a Thursday night meeting between Mark Meadow, Stephen Mnuch, and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer was fruitless. And a deal is a long way off. Inside the room,

the big news is Meadows made an offer to extend unemployment at $600 per week as a standalone

proposition. This is current law, and Republicans have railed against it. Pelosi and Schumer rejected

the offer and suggested they extend the enhanced unemployment insurance at the same rate,

600 per week,

through the first quarter of 2021. Meadows and Mnuchin rejected that, but sources said there may be a start of a consensus here, but goodness, it's tough to see that at the moment.

The debate over money for state and local governments was contentious.

Democrats signaled they would need another $15 billion on top of the roughly

$900 billion they requested, this time to help public transportation systems. Schumer discussed

repealing salt caps, which Republicans are opposed to. They discussed PPP as well, which eventually

turned into talk about OSHA regulations.

They could find agreement on PPP, but alas, they can't find agreement on anything else.

So what's the matter?

When the negotiators discussed money for COVID testing, Meadows tried twice to reach Anthony Fauci,

but could not get him.

Meadows discussed providing COVID testing capability for Capitol Hill, but he found little common ground there. At the end of the discussion,

they found basically no overlap. They agreed to talk more by phone about the allocation of money

in places they agree. A deal is not within reach at the moment. Upon leaving the room, Schumer and

Pelosi both said that Republicans don't understand the gravity of the problem.

Meadows said his proposals were not received warmly.

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