The Republican Main Street Caucus and the House Freedom Caucus are currently in negotiations to include the House Republican border security bill H.R. 2 into a continuing resolution as a way to get conservatives on board to vote for the measure.

With the House not likely to pass all 12 of their appropriations bills by the Sept. 30 deadline before the government runs out of funding, a short-term continuing resolution, a stop-gap measure to fund the government at the previous year’s levels, is looking like the more realistic scenario.

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With a number of hard-line conservatives making demands they’d like to see folded into a continuing resolution, six members from each caucus met late into the night Wednesday to negotiate a temporary spending bill that they could get behind, according to a source with knowledge of the talks.

The talks between Main Street and Freedom Caucus members continued throughout the morning, one of the sources said, and they are still ongoing, as nothing is set in stone yet.

The six members involved in the talks include Reps. Chip Roy (R-TX), Scott Perry (R-PA), and Byron Donalds (R-FL) from the Freedom Caucus, and Reps. Dusty Johnson (R-SD), Kelly Armstrong (R-ND), and Stephanie Bice (R-OK) from the Main Street Caucus, according to a source with direct knowledge of the talks.

In part, they are discussing attaching H.R. 2, which passed earlier this year, to a 30-day continuing resolution, according to another source with direct knowledge of the talks.

“The Republican Main Street Caucus and the House Freedom Caucus are working together in good faith to establish a plan to lower spending, secure the border, and avoid a government shutdown. The talks have been productive and we’ll continue to work toward a deal,” Main Street Chairman Johnson and Vice Chairwoman Bice said in a statement.

Attaching H.R. 2 could help hard-line conservatives be swayed into supporting a continuing resolution, as many of them have said added border security is something they must see in a continuing resolution in order to support it.

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“Me, personally, I think border security is paramount to the role of the federal government. We should be doing that job, and funding a government that doesn’t secure our border makes no sense,” said Donalds.

This process started during the Elected Leadership Meeting, according to another source familiar, when Johnson and Donalds had a good conversation, and it has continued since.