As a Friday deadline to keep the government open approached, the White House appeared to soften its position from the president’s comments last week that he would happily take the blame for a shutdown. Speaking Tuesday on Fox News, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders signaled that the administration might be exploring other options.

“At the end of the day, we don’t want to shut down the government; we want to shut down the border,” she said.

On Capitol Hill, top Democrats voiced opposition to a proposal that was being floated by Republicans to give the Trump administration a $1 billion pot of money to use for immigration enforcement, in addition to a $1.6 billion bipartisan Senate plan for border security. Despite Republican majorities in both chambers, some Democratic votes are necessary in order to get any kind of legislation through the Senate, and it’s not clear House Republicans have the votes to pass a stopgap funding bill on their own either.