CNN’s Mattingly: The W.H. Is Willing To Come Down Off the $5B Number for the Wall

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MATTINGLY: “Top line, what does it mean given the Government is going to shut down in less than six hours? Given how the Senate moves and the fact that the House would still need to vote on whatever the Senate came up with, it is a pretty good chance right now when you talk to aides in both chambers the Government is going to shut down. The question is going to be how long will it be shut down for and will there actually be productive discussions between Democrats and the White House given how far apart they’ve been over the course of the last couple of days, particularly in the last 36 hours or so. What I’m told behind the scenes is the White House has signaled they’re willing to come down off the top line $5 billion number. The question becomes how far will they come down. There’s been talk perhaps that they would move over to what the Senate passed in a bipartisan manner, considered in a bipartisan manner, which would have been a Department of Homeland Security funding bill that set a level at about $1.6 billion.”