GOP senators emerging from a closed-door caucus meeting said they're hoping for more details from the White House regarding what kind of bill the president would be willing to sign, short of the House-passed measure that includes $5.7 billion for a border wall and security.

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"And I don't believe a strong sense of that came out of that meeting" at the White House, Blunt added.

Blunt didn't attend that meeting, but when asked what he had been told about it and what the message from the president was, he pointed to three takeaways.

The House kicked the shutdown fight back to the Senate on Thursday night when it sent the upper chamber a stopgap bill with the border money and disaster recovery aid.

It was expected to fail in the Senate, where it would need to overcome a 60-vote filibuster. But it ran into an early, unexpected, hurdle when a vote to get on the legislation, where Republicans only needed a simple majority, has remained open for more than two hours

"Right now, it's still an open question" if we'll get on the bill, Sen. John Thune John Randolph ThuneOvernight Defense: Stopgap spending measure awaits Senate vote | Trump nominates former Nunes aide for intelligence community watchdog | Trump extends ban on racial discrimination training to contractors, military Remote work poses state tax challenges Senate GOP sees early Supreme Court vote as political booster shot MORE (R-S.D.) told reporters after the vote had been open for more than an hour-and-a-half. "Hopefully we'll know soon."