Blunt said he was "reasonably optimistic" something could get done.

Durbin blamed Trump for the shutdown, and called for a "new bipartisan rule which guarantees we will never face this again."

Durbin and Blunt, from different sides of the ideological spectrum, have long sought a permanent resolution of the legal status of "Dreamers" — young people brought to the United States illegally as children. It is unclear yet if any proposed agreement would include an attempted resolution on that front, but it could be one of several larger questions in the immigration reform debate that plays into the debate calculus between now and mid-February.

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