Good Wednesday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing.

Stay tuned after the podcast for a message from the American Public Transportation Association.

And I'm Anna Palmer. The big story under the dome this morning is House Republicans and how they are dealing with DACA.

Rachel Bade, John Bresnahan, and Heather Kagle have the scoop on Speaker Paul Ryan's move to allow

House Republicans to vote on two immigration bills next week. In an effort to stop the discharge

petition, one vote will be on a conservative bill authored by Representative Bob Goodlatte, and a second

will be on a compromise package that is still being assembled.

The jury is still out on this. This is wonky, so buckle up. Will conservatives go along with

this plan? They don't have to vote for the component bills, although many of them will vote

for the Goodlatte plan, but they do have to vote for the rule, a procedural hurdle that

allows for the votes. 18 Republican knows takes this thing down, since it

seems exceedingly unlikely any Democrats will help at all. GOP leadership's play here will be to try

to shame the Freedom Caucus to vote no. The second bill Republicans will vote on is likely to

include a number of elements of President Donald Trump's immigration plan.

So the choice will be to vote with Trump or not. Expect the president at some point to weigh in on this

immigration plan. Many people will ask why the discharge petition signers didn't seal the deal

and get to 218 on the petition as a backup option.

It's a fair question.

Since the petition could have easily been turned off if and when leadership came up with a plan,

they found satisfactory.

Instead, they put all their chips in the middle with the leadership.

Republicans will get a status update this morning at their closed party meeting.

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