A member of the House Republican whip team predicted that Republican leaders would try to pass a short-term continuing resolution to fund the government, due to a difficulty mustering enough votes to pass the $1.1 trillion cromnibus package.

“If there is a cromnibus bill I will vote for it, but I’m not sure that there will be,” Representative Robert Pittenger (R., N.C.) told National Review Online. “I think right now we’re headed towards a CR.”

Representative Steve King (R., Iowa) and Representative Michelle Bachmann (R., Minn.) made the case for a 60-day CR with an attachment that withholds funding for the implementation of President Obama’s executive orders. They emphasized that the procedure they’re describing would not require the bill to be sent back to the House if Senate Democrats blocked the attachment; it would, however, put Senate Democrats on record as supporting or opposing the executive orders.

“There’s a lot of senators that are up for reelection in 2016 and that vote will be remembered by their constituents in 2016,” Bachmann told reporters.

Pittenger described different CR alternatives, including a one-week CR that presumably would give leadership more time to push for the cromnibus.

“I’ve also chatted with leadership about doing something that would take us through February,” he said.

That would still run into opposition from some rank-and-file conservatives, though. “I’m a no on a CR that doesn’t include language that strips the president’s lawlessness,” King told NRO in response to Pittenger.

“And I’m a no as well,” Bachmann said. “We think that there is a critical mass of members of Congress that want and are demanding a vote. We don’t see any reason why our own party wouldn’t let us vote to defund the president’s unconstitutional action.”