President Donald Trump ’s freezing of funds for Democratic-led states has alarmed some centrist Republicans in Congress, who fear that deepening these partisan divisions could complicate efforts to end the ongoing government shutdown.

“You’re going to create a bad-faith environment here that could put us further out. They need to be very judicious,” Republican Senator Thom Tillis, who is involved in informal bipartisan talks to end the shutdown, told reporters in the U.S. Capitol this week.

The government shutdown entered its fourth day on Saturday, making it the fifth longest in U.S. history.

Trump warned Democrats earlier in the week that he could make “irreversible” cuts to the federal government during a shutdown, and the White House has so far frozen $28 billion in infrastructure

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