The White House on Tuesday placed the onus on Congress to extend protections for young undocumented immigrants after President Trump scrapped an Obama-era program shielding them from deportation.

“I think that the American people elected them to do it,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters. “And, again, if they can’t, then they should get out of the way and let somebody else take their job that can actually get something done.”

Sanders would not describe how Trump wants Congress to address the legal limbo recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program will face once it expires.

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She said Trump wants “a more permanent solution through the legislative process,” preferably in a series of “really big fixes” on issues like the country’s visa system and a wall along the southern border.

But Sanders did not delve into specifics, such as whether the president supports granting a pathway to citizenship or legal status to DACA recipients. She also did not rule out the possibility that Trump would extend protections for DACA recipients if Congress fails to act in six months, when the program is set to expire.

She said, however, that Congress has no excuse for inaction.

"Congress has six months, which is a pretty long time to get something done,” she said.

Former President Barack Obama Barack Hussein ObamaObama calls on Senate not to fill Ginsburg's vacancy until after election Senate Republicans face tough decision on replacing Ginsburg Cruz: Trump should nominate a Supreme Court justice next week MORE approved the DACA program in the summer of 2012 after Congress failed to pass a bill that would have offered a pathway to citizenship to people brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

Lawmakers also failed to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill that would have allowed millions of undocumented immigrants to earn citizenship in exchange for enhanced border security measures. The Senate passed such a bill in 2013, but it was never taken up by the House.