Incoming White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney says that President Trump will remain in Washington until the end of year, ending speculation that he could make a break for Mar-a-Lago amid the partial government shutdown.

Trump typically spends his New Year's holiday at the lavish estate he owns in Palm Beach.

He'll remain in D.C. through next week, Mulvaney said Friday on 'Fox and Friends,' as he declared Trump's trip to Florida 'cancelled' for the upcoming holiday just as it was for Christmas.

'He's staying in Washington, D.C. over New Years,' Mulvaney said. 'He's cancelled his plans for Christmas, now he cancelled his plans for New Year's.'

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders later said that Trump has 'no plans as of now' to go to Mar-a-Lago at all in the next few days.

President Trump typically spends his New Year's holiday at the lavish estate he owns in Palm Beach

Incoming White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney says that President Trump will remain in Washington until the end of year, however

The shutdown has kept President Trump in Washington for the past week, aside from a secret trip to pump up the troops in Iraq.

Mulvaney claimed Friday that Trump, who'd spent the morning tweeting about his border wall, has been following the shutdown news on an almost 'minute-by-minute basis,' as well as the manhunt for an illegal immigrant suspected of killing a cop in California.

He called the shooting a 'heartbreaking' story and said it's 'one of the reasons that the president is still here fighting for border security.'

First lady Melania Trump had went on to Florida without her husband. She returned to Washington to be with him on Christmas Day and participate in his covert trip abroad.

She was back in Florida on Friday and was expected to spend the New Year's holiday there, too, as she'd already left their son Barron to come back to the White House once.

Her spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham confirmed to DailyMail.com, 'She is back in a Florida with her son.'

Most of the president's immediate family spent the Christmas holiday in Palm Beach at the Trump-owned resort.

President Trump's daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, both of whom serve as unpaid advisers to the White House, had been photographed by DailyMail.com at Mar-a-Lago on Christmas Day.

After the photos circulated, Kushner was spotted three times in Washington, D.C., including by DailyMail.com on Friday.

President Trump's daughter and son-in-law, both of whom serve as unpaid advisers to the administration, had been photographed by DailyMail.com Mar-a-Lago earlier in the week

After the photos circulated, Jared Kushner was spotted three times in Washington, D.C., including on Friday

Kushner had been part of the negotiating team, along with Mulvaney and the vice president, that the president sent to Capitol Hill last Friday in hopes of averting a fiscal crisis.

They were unsuccessful, and the Senate adjourned over the weekend until Thursday, when only one senator, Kansas Republican Pat Roberts, showed up to work to gavel in and gavel out the work week's only session.

Returning lawmakers were not expected to be in Washington until the first few days of January, which brings about the beginning of a new legislative session.

Anticipated House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to hold a vote to reopen the government as soon as Congress changes hands on Jan. 3. The earliest the Republican-controlled Senate would take a vote is the following day.

Mulvaney indicated on Fox that neither side was ready to make a deal on Friday.

In the meantime, Mulvaney said, the president and his staff would be ready and waiting for an offer that could reopen closed areas of the government.

'We're here, and they know where to find us,' he told reporters at the White House after his Fox News appearance.

Mulvaney was among a smattering of White House officials who had been seen on the property at all this week as the president's aides spent the holidays with their families.

Other White House officials were kept off the job in the shutdown, because their positions were categorized as non-essential.