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Unless Congress can pass a spending bill, the government will shut down in exactly one month.

That also happens to be President Trump’s 100th day in office.

With the congressional recess coming up, that means there are just eight legislative days to pass a spending bill. And sources tell Playbook that the House won’t take up the measure until the week of April 24, “meaning they will push it off until the last minute, and give themselves five weekdays to avoid a shutdown. What can go wrong?”

But there are signs Republicans are already backing down.

Speaker Paul Ryan suggested he would not get into a fight over Planned Parenthood funding — which means he’ll need Democratic votes to pass a spending bill through his chamber — and there are indications that Republican senators will also strip $1.5 billion in funding for Trump’s border wall as well. (Yeah, the one Mexico was supposed to pay for.)

Now that they’re in charge of the federal government, Republicans don’t seem willing so willing to let the government shut down on their watch.

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In an extended interview with CBS News, Speaker Paul Ryan discussed his failure to get Republicans in the House to pass a health care bill which would repeal Obamacare. He admitted his “Plan B” was to “keep talking to each other and figure out how we get to yes, and how we get this bill passed.”

And then he issued a threat to the conservative House Freedom Caucus:

What I worry about, Norah, is that if we don’t this, then President Trump will just go work with Democrats to try and change Obamacare and that’s not — that’s hardly a conservative thing… If this Republican Congress allows the perfect to be the enemy of the good, I worry we’ll push the president into working with Democrats, he’s been suggesting that as much.”

When pressed on why it was such a bad thing to work with Democrats, he said:

“I don’t want that to happen. You know why? I want a patient-centered system. I don’t want government running health care. The government shouldn’t tell you what you must do with your life, with your health care. We should give people choices.”

It’s pretty extraordinary that Ryan used the threat of Trump abandoning his party in an attempt to get his party unified. It’s also striking that Ryan admits he sees bipartisanship as a bad thing.

It’s probably an unrealistic threat, but it’s extraordinary nonetheless.