Republican senators are predicting that a fix for a key Obama-era immigration program will end up in next month's government funding bill, as they search for ways to break a months-long stalemate.

Several GOP senators said Monday that the mammoth bill, known as an omnibus, would likely be the vehicle for a deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

"That's probably the most likely thing, when we write the funding of the government bill we'll extend DACA legislatively, making it legal for a year or two and kind of punting it," Graham told reporters.

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"I have a feeling what we may see on this is ... a DACA fix and some border security, a much smaller package, that will be attached to the March 22 spending bill. If I was guessing what was going to happen, I think that's what may happen," Capito told WRNR , a West Virginia radio station.

The pivot to a short-term DACA agreement and the possibility of attaching it to the government funding bill comes after senators rejected four immigration proposals, including the White House framework and a narrower centrist deal, earlier this month.

Sen. John Cornyn John CornynCalls grow for Biden to expand election map in final sprint Bipartisan praise pours in after Ginsburg's death Chamber of Commerce endorses McSally for reelection MORE (R-Texas), McConnell's No. 2, told reporters earlier this month that "some temporary provision” could be included if both sides can reach an agreement.

The government funding deadline comes weeks after a March 5 deadline initially created by the Trump administration's decision to end DACA, which allows certain immigrants brought into the country illegally as children to work and go to school.

But two court decisions requiring the program to remain on the books while litigation plays out have thrown that time frame into limbo. The Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration's request to leapfrog an appeals court and take up their appeal of one of the injunctions.