4:41 p.m. President Obama will remain in Washington over the weekend, instead of going to Williamsburg, Va., with his family as originally planned, the White House announced.

4:27 p.m. Also circulating a petition today, in addition to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, is the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The group is urging supporters to sign onto this letter:

3:22 p.m. Will there be a deal? Today's public debate is all about the politics in advance of a shutdown -- or an agreement. Should there be a deal, Democrats will have spent the past day rallying their base on core issues -- women's reproductive rights and health care -- potentially softening the blowback from agreeing to what could be as much as $38 billion in spending cuts (and certainly at least temporarily distracting attention from what's getting cut). And Republicans will have spent the same day being perceived as holding firm on a core issue for their base, to the sputtering outrage of Democrats. So from a political perspective, if a deal is struck, both sides will have benefited from the day's posturing.

Signs that a deal might yet be struck came in the form of ongoing staff negotiations and word that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor "told rank-and-file members during a closed-door meeting that if a funding deal is struck later on Friday, steps will be taken to keep the government from shutting down at midnight. He assured the lawmakers that there would be some type of 'bridge' put forth to allow the added time necessary to put the accord's details into legislative form. Lawmakers said they understood that to mean a short-term continuing resolution would be taken up -- perhaps for a day, the weekend, or as long as a week -- to allow time for bill drafters to finalize their work."

3:05 p.m. Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, issued a statement on the final day of budget negotiations today. "It's an outrage to shut down the government over an extreme proposal that would deny millions of women Pap tests, breast cancer screenings and birth control," she said. "Attacking Planned Parenthood's preventive health care hurts women, does not cut the deficit or fix the economy, and must be stopped."

3:00 p.m. Trending on Twitter in D.C. right now: #govtshutdownpickuplines. The Daily Caller has gathered together the Top 10 best.

2:47 p.m. ABC's Matthew Jaffee observes the bipartisan budget negotiations yesterday revealed an older kind of partisanship on display:

For a debate that could come down to women's reproductive rights, there's surprisingly few women in the room.... Leaders of the talks include President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, House Speaker John Boehner and Reid. Other high-ranking officials in the room are White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, White House Legislative Affairs Director Rob Nabors, Office of Management and Budget director Jack Lew, Boehner's Chief of Staff Barry Jackson and Reid's top staffer David Krone -- that's right, all men. The highest-ranking woman and vocal critic of the Planned Parenthood rider to the budget bill is the Senate's No. 4 Democrat, Patty Murray of Washington. But Murray has not been present in the top-level talks at the White House.

2:32 p.m. Not to get all provincial on you, dear reader, but people who have to live here in D.C. through a government shutdown are really concerned about this issue of the trash services coming to a halt. Here's what our mayor has to say:

We have funds 2 pay 4 trash collection but are prevented by the Congress from spending them b/c these services are deemed nonessential. Vincent C. Gray

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2:23 p.m. The Atlantic's Chris Good reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, at the news conference pictured below, had this to say:

The House leadership with the speaker have a very clear choice to make, and they don't have very much time to make that choice. They can keep their word and significantly cut the federal deficit, or they can shut down the federal government over women's access to health care. If that sounds ridiculous, it's because it is ridiculous. We all know the federal budget is very complex, but the choice here is a simple choice.... The choice, though, should be very easy. We use the word "rider" around here a lot lately, and now it's become plural: "riders." Let's remember what's really riding on the proposal that we have here. If the government shuts down over access to, for example, cancer screening, a fragile economy will really be hurt. Let's remember that, in five weeks, the GDP would drop one whole percent. Our intelligence and diplomatic efforts around the whole world would be significantly harmed, and in the process, the credibility of this great country of ours would be significantly harmed.... What if a family has worked and worked in the fragile economy and they're finally able to qualify for a home loan.? ... [FHA-backed loans] would stop.... Small businesses won't be able to get the loans that they need. Taxpayers wouldn't be able to get the tax refunds that they've earned.... This shutdown would have a tremendous impact on the state of Virginia. This is Virginia's big weekend. It's the cherry blossom festival. People plan to come here all year, and one of the things they want to do when they come here is take a walk down the mall.... All this to stop women from getting regular tests and preventive services that they need. 90 percent of that Title X money is for preventive health services. It is against the law that any money be spent for abortion, and they're not -- it's against the law.... The fact that Republicans have made this about women's health, or not about money or anything controversial, is really a sham.

2:09 p.m. The Senate Democratic Caucus is holding a news conference. The assembled (via @DanaBashCNN):