“We have other ways that we can get to that $5 billion.”
“What a let down if true.”
IOW: I read the title, not the article.
No. I read the article. And what I read was "We won't make shutting down the government part of our negotiations and since we can't get the money in the way that we're legally supposed to get it then maybe, might, probably, possibly we can get it another way."
That's disappointing.