The House Freedom Caucus may not support the next stopgap spending measure, the group’s chairman said Monday night, which could create headaches for GOP leaders as they once again try to map out a strategy to keep the government open past next week.

Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows Mark Randall MeadowsAirline CEOs plead with Washington as layoffs loom Trump reacts to Ginsburg's death: 'An amazing woman who led an amazing life' Trump carries on with rally, unaware of Ginsburg's death MORE (R-N.C.) said there was “overwhelming consensus” among the members who attended a Monday night meeting to oppose yet another temporary funding patch, which would be the fifth since September. Current government funding runs out Feb. 8.

The ultra-conservative group did not take a formal position on a continuing resolution (CR), however, because there weren’t enough members present at the Monday night meeting. But the caucus could meet again as early as Tuesday and take a formal position on the issue, which would require consensus from 80 percent of its members.

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“The general consensus is not to support another CR,” Meadows told reporters. “There is a concern that we continue to agree to a strategy to do just another short-term CR, and those strategies fail to materialize.”

The band of roughly 30 conservative hard-liners has some leverage in the spending talks, since Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Nancy PelosiAs families deal with coronavirus, new federal dollars should follow the student Sunday shows - Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death dominates Hypocrisy rules on both sides over replacing Justice Ginsburg MORE (D-Calif.) has been refusing to supply the Democratic votes for a CR without a deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

To win conservative support for the last monthlong government funding bill, Speaker Paul Ryan Paul Davis RyanKenosha will be a good bellwether in 2020 At indoor rally, Pence says election runs through Wisconsin Juan Williams: Breaking down the debates MORE (R-Wis.) promised Meadows and the Freedom Caucus that he would put a defense funding bill on the House floor and assemble a team to more aggressively whip GOP support for an immigration bill authored by Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte Robert (Bob) William GoodlatteNo documents? Hoping for legalization? Be wary of Joe Biden Press: Trump's final presidential pardon: himself USCIS chief Cuccinelli blames Paul Ryan for immigration inaction MORE (R-Va.).

So far, leadership has at least held up one end of the bargain, with the House scheduled to vote on a Pentagon funding bill this week that would bust the budget caps for defense programs.

But Meadows expressed frustration that there hasn’t been more aggressive action on the Goodlatte bill.

“I have real questions whether that’s actually [being whipped],” Meadows said. “Whipping in words only is not whipping it.”

While the Goodlatte bill reflects a basket of conservative immigration priorities and has buy-in from key committee chairmen, it’s unclear whether it can get 218 GOP votes in the House.

And leadership is also worried that putting the Goodlatte bill on the floor could poison the well on the bipartisan DACA negotiations led by Ryan’s top lieutenant, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy Kevin Owen McCarthyTrump asked Chamber of Commerce to reconsider Democratic endorsements: report The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by The Air Line Pilots Association - White House moves closer to Pelosi on virus relief bill Trump's sharp words put CDC director on hot seat MORE (R-Calif.). The White House last week also unveiled its own immigration framework, which differs greatly from the Goodlatte measure.

“If there is the finger of leadership on the scales to tip something one way or another, that’s not whipping it,” Meadows said.