The House Republican Conference will hold a closed meeting Tuesday morning where it might come to a consensus on how to respond to President Barack Obama's executive order on immigration.

There might be a bill on the floor as early as next Thursday if House Republican leadership comes to a consensus on how to respond.

According to Politico, Speaker John Boehner said the leadership team is considering trying to pass a government funding bill that could target some immigration enforcement funding, or they might directly respond to the executive action in a standalone bill.

There may be a bill that would fund the government through September 2015 and another that would extend immigration funding for a few months.

Obama decided to lift the threat of deportation from 5 million undocumented immigrants who have been in the country for at least five years.

In an interview taped Friday in Las Vegas, Obama asked, "Why we would prefer a system in which they're in the shadows, potentially taking advantage of living here but not contributing?"

Since announcing his executive order Thursday, the president has gotten a wave of negative responses from Republicans.

"The American people should not be manipulated into believing that they are heartless simply because they want to preserve the rule of law in our nation and look after their own before they take in others," author Ben S. Carson wrote in the Washington Times.

"We also have to consider the millions of people who have immigrated here legally as well as those who are in the queue," he added. "It is incredibly unfair to them to grant amnesty to those who have jumped ahead of them in line illegally."

At this point there is no clear point on how House Republican leadership will respond to Obama's executive order. Analysts have said there might be a government shutdown or the GOP would cancel the State of the Union.

Once Congress returns on Monday, discussion will begin.