House Republicans are sending an early warning to their GOP colleagues in the Senate: We’re not a rubber stamp for any deal you cut with Democrats on immigration.

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The comments arrived on Day Two of the government shutdown, as talks between party leaders have largely broken down and a bipartisan group of Senate moderates has stepped into the void in an attempt to break the impasse with a deal over the fate of recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

“I think there will be a breakthrough tonight ,” Graham said. “If there’s going to be one, it’s going to be tonight .”

Not so fast, said House Republicans.

“I just don’t think that’s likely.”

“The president has been very clear in articulating what it would take,” Meadows said.

“That was never the deal,” he said. “The president has been very consistent.”

The debate over the fate of DACA recipients, immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children, has been a political headache for Republican leaders. They say they’ll accept Trump’s challenge to codify the DACA protections, but have struggled to come up with a proposal that accomplishes that goal without exposing the fierce divisions within their conference on the issue.

More recently, Ryan has said he won’t vote on any immigration bill that lacks Trump’s support.

“We’ve been working steadily, building support very rapidly,” Goodlatte told The Hill on Sunday . He declined to put a number on that support.

“I always love it around here. We’re all for the majority of the majority — until we’re not,” Dent, clad in a Philadelphia Eagles jacket, told reporters.

“At some point there’s going to be a bipartisan DREAM Act bill, or DACA bill, that’s gonna have to be voted on in the House — with or without a majority of the majority.

“We’re just gonna have to deal with it.”