Senate Majority Leader John Thune said that GOP leaders will have to turn their attention to a looming government shutdown deadline after spending weeks intensely focused on advancing President Donald Trump’s domestic policy agenda.

“We’ve got to get through the March 14 deadline first, but then we’ve also got to get work on the bigger project — the budget resolution and ultimately reconciliation,” Thune told reporters as he returned from a meeting at the White House that included Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson as well as top tax writers and administration officials.

The meeting was called to start the process of reconciling competing budget blueprints from House and Senate Republicans which dictate different fiscal parameters for Trump’s agenda. It came a day after House Republicans passed their version, which provides for border security, tax and energy priorities in one sprawling bill.

The Senate is now expected to take the House framework and make changes, with Thune planning to hold discussions among his members about a path forward starting next week.

“The House action helps keep that moving along. So now we’ve got to do some work to do with our members to figure out what the traffic will bear and what ultimately we can get through the House and Senate,” Thune added.

Any changes made by the Senate will also have to pass muster in the House, and getting the two chambers on the same page could take several weeks. By comparison, Congress has just over two weeks to fund the government.

Johnson told reporters after the White House meeting on Wednesday that a continuing resolution is “inevitable at this point” while also saying that he expected the Senate to “move quickly, aggressively” on the budget.