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Hey, good morning. It's Chief Playbook correspondent Eugene Daniels. It is Thursday, March 6th.

Here is what's driving the day. Here in Washington, Congress's top appropriators are finalizing

a bipartisan agreement on overall government funding totals.

That comes even as House Republican leaders forge ahead with a different plan,

one that President Donald Trump has endorsed to avoid a government shutdown ahead of the March 14th deadline.

As a reminder, that's just one week from tomorrow.

Basically, to avoid a shutdown, there are a few options on the table.

One is to pass a short-term continuing resolution that would last a few weeks as a longer-term

deal takes shape. But the other, which Trump prefers, would be a full-year CR that would keep

the military and non-defense agencies operating on flat funding levels

through September 30th, which is the end of the current fiscal year. House Republicans want to

try that second option, but it's not clear that they have the votes. Watch for this to occupy

a lot of the chatter on Capitol Hill today as members scramble to try and avoid a potentially,

politically, costly shutdown. Trump's sledgehammer approach to the presidency has already

reshaped life in Washington, D.C., but it's rapidly shifting the global economic landscape,

too. Witness the trade warp that has erupted this week after Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Canada

and Mexico, which threatened to kneecap the economies of the U.S. top two trading partners.

Yesterday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with Trump in a quest to end the tariffs,

and though the conversations continue, they haven't yielded results quite yet, with one notable exception.

The White House announced a 30-day delay in tariffs on the auto industry, a temporary reprieve ahead of further reciprocal tariffs taking in on April 2nd.

But those tariffs aren't simply pain points for our neighbors to the north and the south.

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