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In a sign of growing unease about the partial government shutdown, some Senate Republicans came off the sidelines to hash out a deal that would reopen the government as Congress worked toward a broader agreement tying wall funds to protection for some undocumented immigrants and other migrants. Vice President Mike Pence and other members of Mr. Trump’s team let it be known privately that the president would not back such a deal. “It kind of fell apart,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, who was among those Republicans seeking a deal. “It is time for President Trump to use emergency powers to fund the construction of a border wall/barrier,” he said later in a brief statement. Administration officials are debating whether they could make such a move without the president declaring a national emergency, an action the White House counsel’s office has explored. But Mr. Trump’s advisers, including his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, have urged him to try to find other approaches than declaring a national emergency. “If Congress approves this trade bill, they’ll pay for the wall many times over. “We can declare a national emergency,” Mr. Trump said. Privately, he told Mr. Graham’s group that the president also would not support a proposal that would reopen the government for three weeks while Republicans and Democrats work to hash out a broader legislative deal on the wall and temporary grants of legal status for the two groups. The president is allowed to divert unspent money from projects under a national emergency.

Expected live at 1:45 pm ET. Air Force One lands at the McAllen-Miller International Airport in McAllen, Texas. President Trump will travel to the U.S. Border Patrol McAllen Station and take part in a roundtable to discuss immigration and border…

President Trump departs Joint Base Andrews aboard Air Force One. The President will visit McAllen, Texas to take part in a roundtable on immigration and border security at 2:10 pm ET. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news…

The mayor of McAllen, Texas joins Stephanie Ruhle to explain how this new immigration policy is affecting the image of his town and the people in it. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is the premier destination for in-depth…