“Let’s go back and forth on this and see where we can find common ground,” he said.

But Clyburn again insisted Trump reopen the government first, and Trump gave no sign he would agree to do so, even for a few weeks, to give negotiators a chance to cut a deal.

That leaves Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer facing another choice as lawmakers return to town: make a fresh counteroffer of their own that would include wall money, or stick to their previously unified negotiating positions and hope a majority of the public continues to blame the president or Republicans.

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The spending package McConnell plans to advance--- which includes funding for Trump’s wall and immigration proposals with disaster relief -- was still being tweaked over the weekend, a White House official said. Numerous Senate Republicans tweeted their support, and Vice President Mike Pence is expected to continue talks with lawmakers at the Capitol.

After Trump spoke on Saturday, Shahira Knight, his legislative director, led a conference call with House Republicans while Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen spoke with Senate Republicans. White House officials continued their outreach to individual lawmakers on Sunday.

On “Fox News Sunday,” Pence held out hope that some rank-and-file Democrats would break from their leadership and back the president’s package. But Democratic leaders dismissed the chances of the bill getting to 60 votes needed to advance, let alone the backing of a majority in the Democratic-controlled House.

Some 54 senators, including most Democrats, supported a path to citizenship for the DACA population in 2018 in return for $25 billion in border funding over a decade. But Trump opposed the bill because he also insisted on cuts to legal immigration.

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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York indicated Sunday that she’d back that proposal again.

“We put a deal on the table a year ago to say, we will give you the border security money that you want” in return for a path to citizenship for all “Dreamers,” she said on ABC’s “This Week.” “That is still there for him. The fact that he’s saying three years just for DACA just shows that he’s not serious.”