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Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski ripped President Trump's handling of the funding battle that could cause a government shutdown, saying she told him at the White House that a shutdown was "bad direction to take."

In an interview in the Capitol, she confirmed to CNN that Trump did not lay out an end game or detail what he would be willing to support to avoid a government shutdown.

Murkowski said she was was frustrated that Trump did not lay out what he would sign to end a shutdown.

“Because people are expecting, Americans are expecting that a Republican President, along with his Republican House and Senate will have an end game, will have a path forward for us as we are just hours away from a government shutdown," the Alaska lawmaker said.

At the White House meeting Friday morning, Murkowski said she was "very clear that I felt a shutdown was a bad direction to take, that it doesn’t serve anyone well and that the American public expects us to figure it out. So I was pretty clear.”

She said Trump was "passionate about ensuring that we address the issue of border security," and made it "very clear" he doesn't like the short-term bill to keep a portion of the government open until February.