In an interview with Fox News White House press secretary Sarah Sanders suggested today that the White House has found an alternative way to get its requested $5 billion in funding for a US-Mexico border wall.
Sanders indicated the White House could support a compromise bill to avoid partial government shutdown later this week.
"We have other ways that we can get to that $5 billion (for a border wall)," Sanders told Fox this morning.
"We will work with Congress if they will make sure we get a bill passed that provides not just the funding for the wall, but there's a piece of legislation that's been pushed around that Democrats actually voted 26-5 out of committee that provides roughly $26 billion for border security including $1.6 billion for the wall," she said. "That's something that we would be able to support as a long as we can couple that with other funding resources."
Sanders added: "At the end of the day, we don't want to shut down the government, we want to shut down the border."