Reporter: If the deal does fall apart, are there elements of it that the White House could tackle on its own without Congress?

KJP: So, look, I don’t want to get into hypotheticals. There’s a deal happening. If I say — if I answer that — right? — then it’s getting in the way of the negotiations. I don’t want to do that.

Reporter: And then a follow-up on the border. The terms of the Senate deal that are under discussion would get — give DHS expulsion authority if border encounters hit an average of 4,000 a day over the course of a week. Does the President consider that threshold of daily encounters a crisis?

MR. KIRBY: I’m not going to negotiate in public.

KJP: All right. Go ahead —

Reporter: I’m not asking — of course, (inaudible) —

MR. KIRBY: You’re asking me about a specific provision that the — that you allege is in the deal. And, as Karine has said many, many times — and she’s absolutely right — we’re not going to negotiate here in public on what — what’s in or what’s not in this — in this deal.

Reporter: Setting aside the deal in question and waiting for more details to come to light, is there a number, in particular, with regards to border cr- — crossings that the President would see as a crisis?

MR. KIRBY: The President himself has talked about the fact that — that there’s a crisis going on at the border and the numbers are too high and we’re going to do what we have to do — regionally — not just with our own Border Patrol but regionally with Mexico and other countries — to see if we can get that — that number down.

Reporter: I wanted to ask about the border. President Biden talked about shutting down the border on the basis of national security. Are there not steps that he could use under executive authority to — some measures to, kind of, seal some of the border efforts?

KJP: He has said he’s — he’s willing to use executive measures and — and, you know, if he gets — if he gets the — the bill passed, if he gets border funding, and it — and includes those authorities, he’ll use those authorities.

Reporter: Why not — why wait — why wait until Congress? Why not —

MR. KIRBY: We need — we need — we need legislative support for border security measures. And we need the funding to be able to put in place border security measures that the President can utilize.

He has done some things, like putting U.S. troops down there to alleviate some of the responsibilities or administrative responsibilities of Border Patrol. And — but we need this — we need this funding.

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