Ohio -- Few people besides President Trump and his closest supporters seem to want a government shutdown over the border wall.

Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Representative Steve Stivers (R-OH15) each said in interviews with Spectrum News on Tuesday that they hope a partial shutdown can be prevented.

Trump made clear in an Oval Office meeting — part of which played out on live television — that, right now at least, he’s not budging on wanting $5 billion set aside for a border wall in a spending bill that needs to be passed by Friday, December 21.

Democrats want to allot no more than $1.3 or $1.6 billion for border security in the spending bill, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reiterated that to Trump’s face on Tuesday.

Stivers, who represents Ohio’s 15th District, said he agrees the need is there for a more secure border, but he hopes his colleagues can come together before Dec. 21 to prevent a shutdown.

“I want to make sure we can defend our border, and that includes a physical barrier, it includes the manpower, it includes technology, it includes a lot of things,” Stivers said. “But I’m not stuck on a specific number; but I think the president’s in the right ballpark, so I’d like to be close to [$5 billion].”

But Stivers added, “While I support border security and I support funding border security, I don’t believe we’d have to have a shutdown.”

Brown wouldn’t say if there’s a compromise number he’d agree to for wall funding, only saying the wall is not the solution to securing the border.

“Nobody here wants to do a shutdown,” Brown said. “The president threatens a shutdown, it’s delay of Social Security — who knows what it is. But it’s not the way to run the country and the president, it was a bit of a tantrum he threw today to scream about border security. We want to do border security, we just don’t think spending ultimately $35 or $40 billion on a wall is how you do border security.”

The conservative House Freedom Caucus says its members will vote against any spending bill that doesn’t include $5 billion for the wall.

That means Representatives Jim Jordan (R-OH04) and Warren Davidson (R-OH08), who are members of the group, may end up siding with Trump on wanting to close part of the government just days before Christmas. ​