The White House supports a stopgap spending bill to prevent a government shutdown on Friday , press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Wednesday .

“We do support the short-term [continuing resolution],” Sanders told reporters.

Feb. 16 and fund the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for six years. The spokeswoman was asked about a plan floated by House Republican leaders that would keep the government open throughand fund the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for six years.

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It's unclear if the plan has the votes to pass.

Lawmakers need to pass a measure by midnight Friday , when government funding runs out.

The spokeswoman urged Democrats to support the short-term measure and argued they would be to blame if the government shuts down.

“The president certainly doesn’t want a shutdown, and if one happens, I think you’ll only have one place to look — and that’s to the Democrats," Sanders said.

Democrats have rejected that claim, noting Republicans control both chambers of Congress and the White House.

Many Democratic lawmakers, however, have said they will vote against the stopgap spending bill because it does not address the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration program.

Negotiations over the future of the program, which Trump scrapped, hit a wall this week after the president made vulgar comments about immigration from "shithole countries" during a heated Oval Office meeting.