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It's Thursday morning. I'm Olivia Reingold, and this is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

We're learning that the GOP is considering sending another infrastructure counterproposal to the White House. That's after President

Joe Biden and Senator Shelley Moore Capito, the lead GOP negotiator on the issue, met for a one-on-one

yesterday. Their public statements were bland, but here's what we were able to learn about what

happened behind closed doors.

After sitting down with Biden in the Oval Office, Capito briefed the other five Senate Republicans in her negotiating group.

That's John Barrasso, Roy Blunt, Mike Crapo, Pat Toomey, and Roger Wicker.

And Republicans weren't happy with what she had to say, telling them Biden wants $1 trillion in new spending.

If you're new here, there's been a big debate about how much of the Republican offers have been taken up by baseline spending.

That's spending that would already occur if nothing changed and current policy stayed the same.

But Republicans say only a few weeks ago, Biden told GOP negotiators that baseline spending

could go towards meeting his goal of a $1 trillion package.

The latest Republican offer, by the way, is nowhere near a trillion dollars in new spending,

with an overall price tag of $928 billion, $257 billion of which count as new spending.

Meanwhile, the last number the White House had was $1.7 trillion.

So now, the GOP is considering sending another counteroffer to the White House

as soon as Friday, when Capito is scheduled to meet with Biden again, this time probably by phone.

But nothing is set in stone, when Capito briefed her co-negotiators last night. The group didn't

reach a final decision about

where to go from here, partly because we're hearing they're starting to feel discouraged.

One source put it like this, quote, I have a hard time seeing this go ahead because Republicans'

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