At the same time, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is convening a bipartisan group to try and figure out if there’s a way out of the shutdown by pairing border security with immigration reform, according to a person familiar with the group. Manchin was left out of a GOP group last week that tried and failed to get out of the shutdown.

Sen. John Cornyn said he’d had some conversations across the aisle but isn’t an “official gang member.”

“If they come up with something the president will sign, that will do it,” Cornyn said of the group.

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