Good Friday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing. Stay tuned after the show for a message from the American Public Transportation Association. We're kicking the morning off with a first in Playbook. The Republican National Committee continued its strong fundraising push, bringing in $13 million last month, a record for a non-presidential April.

The next closest April of a non-presidential year was back in 2005 when the RNC raised nearly

$10.5 million. The group has raised $184.5 million in total this cycle, and it has $43.8 million cash on hand and no debt.

R&C Chair Rana Romney McDaniels said the funds will help Republicans, quote, defy history in November.

And we've got some news on the House Republicans' immigration strategy.

House Republicans are in a box.

Twenty Republican lawmakers have now signed on to a discharge petition, which would force a series

of immigration votes. But a new strategy has emerged. Behind the scenes, Republican leadership,

Speaker Paul Ryan, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and House Majority Whip, Steve Scalise,

are now quietly promising the figures behind the discharge petition, and those who might sign that,

they will put a bunch of immigration bills on the floor as soon as next month for a vote.

They say this is a better option than the discharge petition because this will actually allow the Republican leadership to control the process.

Right now, the discharge petition would allow Democrats to vote on whatever they want, which would probably mean the DREAM Act.

Each ideological segment of the House Republicans will get a bill to vote on.

Now, of course, no one believes there's going to be a deal right now.

We're in the middle of an election year and the president's demands do not line up with the 218 House Republicans at the moment.

This is a member management move.

Lawmakers of all ideological stripes want to vote, and their leadership

is going to give them that. The trouble on immigration has caused problems on another front.

House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows said Thursday his members will not support the Farm Bill

measure until after a vote is held on conservative immigration legislation,

a move that could sink leadership's hopes of voting on the sweeping agriculture and nutrition bill this week.

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